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Andromeda Galaxy Team Wins 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year as London Exhibition Opens

Royal Museums Greenwich awards the £10,000 top prize in the competition’s 17th year.

Overview

  • The overall honor went to Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu for “The Andromeda Core,” captured at AstroCamp Observatory in Spain.
  • Dan Bartlett won Planets, Comets & Asteroids for “Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks Taking a Final Bow,” documenting activity during the current solar maximum.
  • Tom Rae took Skyscapes with “The Ridge,” a panorama exceeding one billion pixels stitched from 62 images at New Zealand’s Mount Cook National Park.
  • Leonardo Di Maggio won the Annie Maunder Open with “Fourth Dimension,” a composite merging JWST gravitational-lensing data with meteorite imagery.
  • Winning and shortlisted works are now on view at the National Maritime Museum in London, featuring standout captures of 2024 events such as a 500,000-km solar prominence.