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Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 Shortlist
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A Fork, a Spoon and the Moon © Andrew Caldwell
A Royal Spoonbill sits atop of a
branch basking in the glow of
the nearly Full Moon in Hawke’s
Bay, New Zealand.
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Above the World © Lee Cook
Taken from Sefton Bivouac, the oldest hut in
Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand, star
trails spiral over the majestic mountains of the
park and the seemingly peaceful village below.
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Antarctic Space Station © Richard Inman
A view of the Halley 6 Research Station situated on the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica,
which is believed to be the closest thing you can get to living in space without leaving
Earth, making it perfect to be used for research by the European Space Agency. As
the Sun’s light dissipates into the horizon, the Aurora Borealis can be seen swirling
overhead.
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Aurora Bird © Jan R Olsen
The vivid green Northern Lights resemble a bird
soaring over open water in Olderdalen, Norway.
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Auroral Nuggets © Stephen Voss
The Universe puts on its very own light show to see in the New Year on 1 January
2016, as the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights, arcs over Nugget Point on the South
Otago coast of New Zealand.
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Between the Rocks © Rick Whitacre
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, stretches across
the night sky between two of the imposing
rocks at Pfeiffer State Beach, near Big Sur,
California.
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Celestial Veil © Yuyun Wang
The natural light of the Milky Way battles with the light pollution over the fishing village, or
kelong, in Batu Pahat, Malaysia. In the lower right hand corner, there is also bioluminescence in
the waters at the bottom of the kelong.
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Crystal Brilliance © Tommy Richardsen
A mesmerising lunar halo forms around our natural satellite, the Moon, in the night
sky above Norway. The halo, also known as a moon ring or winter halo, is an optical
phenomenon created when moonlight is refracted in numerous ice crystals
suspended in the atmosphere.
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Five Plus Two © Der Mits
The rare opportunity of seeing five planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and
Jupiter - gleaming in the night sky over the Alps captured on camera. On the left
hand side is the Dufour peak of the MonteRosa range and on the right hand side of
the frame is the instantly recognisable peak of the Matterhorn.
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Flash Point © Brad Goldpaint
The Perseid Meteor Shower shoots across the sky in the early hours of August 13,
2015, appearing to cascade from Mount Shasta in California, USA. The composite
image features roughly 65 meteors captured by the photographer between 12:30am
and 4:30am.
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Frozen Giant © Nicholas Roemmelt
The celestial curve of the Milky Way joins with the light of a stargazer’s headlamp to
form a monumental arch over the Cimon della Pella in the heart of the Dolomites
mountain range in northeastern Italy.
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Huge Filaprom © Gabriel Octavian Corban
A tremendous filaprom extends from the surface of our star, the Sun. Filaproms are
large, gaseous features that can be partially seem over the Sun’s disk as a filament,
and they are known to reach lengths equal to 150 Earths aligned.
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ISS under Venus and the Moon © Philippe Jacquot
Taken from atop the Semnoz Mountain, the International Space Station arcs over the
city of Annecy, France, as Venus and the Moon loom overhead.
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Just Missed the Bullseye © Scott Carnie-Bronca
The International Space Station (ISS) appears to pierce a path across the radiant,
concentric star trails seemingly spinning over the silhouettes of the trees in Harrogate,
South Australia.
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King of the Planets © Damian Peach
Looming in the night sky, tempestuous storms are
visible across the face of the largest planet in our
Solar System, Jupiter. The Great Red Spot - a raging
storm akin to a hurricane on Earth - stands out in a
deep orange from the hues of browns surrounding it.
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M8: Lagoon Nebula © Ivan Eder
New stars are formed in the undulating clouds of M8, also commonly referred to as
the Lagoon Nebula, situated some 5,000 light years from our planet.
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M82 Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind © Leonardo Orazi
About 12 million light years away from our planet, lays
the starburst galaxy M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy.
In a show of radiant red, the superwind bursts out from
the galaxy, believed to be the closest place to our planet
in which the conditions are similar to that of the early
Universe, where a plethora of stars are forming.
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Moon Reflection © Rafael Defavari
The brilliance of the Moon illuminates the night sky, and is reflected in the expansive
water of the Paraty Bay, Brazil.
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Northern Lights over Jokulsarlon, Iceland © Giles Rocholl
A couple takes in the awe-inspiring sight of the Northern Lights streaking across the
night sky over the lagoon at Jokulsarlon, Iceland on Valentine’s night of 2016
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Painted Hills © Nicholas Roemmelt
With very little light pollution, the glimmering
stars of the Milky Way bathe the colourful layers
of the Painted Hills of Oregon in a natural glow.
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Parallel Mountains © Sean Goebel
The shadow of Manua Kea, the highest peak in the
state of Hawaii, is projected by the rising sun over the
volcano, Hualalai, whilst the Full Moon soars above
them, higher again.
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Pickering's Triangle © Bob Franke
The luminous tangle of filaments of Pickering’s
Triangle intertwines through the night sky.
Located in the Veil Nebula, it is one of the main
visual elements of a supernova remnant, whose
source exploded around 8,000 years ago.
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Rise Lunation © Katherine Young
The often unnoticed ripples and shimmers of
the Moon captured on film as it appears to
rise through the sky. Here, the Moon is
photographed at 98% illumination and is
beginning to wane.
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Seven Magic Points © Rune Engebø
The rusty red swirls of the circular, iron sculpture Seven Magic Points in
Brattebergan, Norway mirror the rippling aurora above.
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South © Phil Hart
The Southern Cross constellation of the
Milky Way, visible in the southern sky
creates a guiding light along Bucklands
Lane in Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria.
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Stars and Stripes © Brandon Yoshizawa
Ancient petroglyphs are lit up by the
glittering stars of the night sky in the
Eastern Sierras in California, USA.
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The Diamond Ring © Melanie Thorne
The dramatic moment that our star, the Sun,
appears to be cloaked in darkness by the Moon
during the Total Solar Eclipse of 9th March 2016
in Indonesia. The Sun peers out from behind the
Moon and resembles the shape of a diamond
ring, caused by the rugged edge of the Moon
allowing some beads of sunlight to shine
through in certain places.
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The Disconnection Event © Michael Jäeger
Comet Lovejoy soars through the night sky in a green haze with an ion tail in its wake.
The image shows Lovejoy appearing to lose its tail on 21 January 2015.
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The Joy of Seven Sisters © José Francisco Hernández Cabrera
Comet Lovejoy flashes through the darkness of the Solar System, passing near the open star
cluster of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. The Pleiades glow blue due to their extremely hot
nature, and are the most obvious star cluster to the naked eye in the night sky.
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Wall of Plasma © Eric Toops
A searing solar prominence extends outwards from
the surface of the Sun. The ‘wall of plasma’ is the
height of three times the Earth’s diameter.
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Venus Rising © Ivan Slade
July 27, 2016 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.C
All photos were taken from Science Focus.
Music : Argo - Calm Emotional Space Music
During the seldom-seen alignment of the five
planets in February 2016, Venus, Mercury and the
Milky Way rose an hour before sunrise, and
appear to be fleeing its early glow, overlooking
Turrimeta Beach, Australia.
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