The winners of the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 awards have been introduced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
APY is the largest astrophotography competitors on the earth, and this 12 months photographers from all around the globe competed, with 1,141 people submitting a complete of 5,882 entries.
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With eight topic classes in addition to particular prizes for newcomers – one which recognises the most effective picture processed utilizing astronomical knowledge, and the ZWO Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year – the competitors was fierce.
2025 winner revealed
The Andromeda Core by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu, is the general winner of the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the 12 months 2025 competitors
This 12 months, the successful picture is The Andromeda Core by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu, which exhibits an unimaginable view of our nearest spiral galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy.
The picture got here high within the Galaxies class, and was additionally the judges’ choose for greatest general picture submitted to the competitors.
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 choose László Francsics mentioned: “Not to indicate all of it − this is among the best virtues of this picture.
“The Andromeda Galaxy has been photographed in so many alternative methods, it’s exhausting to think about a photograph would ever add to what we’ve already seen.
“But this does just that: an unusual, dynamic composition, with unprecedented detail that doesn’t obscure the overall scene.”
Best newcomer
Encounter Across Light Years, by Yurui Gong, Xizhen Ruan, gained the Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer
Each 12 months, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competitors selects the Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer, which in 2025 went to Encounter Across Light Years by Yurui Gong and Xizhen Ruan.
It exhibits a fireball streaking throughout the sky within the foreground, with the Andromeda Galaxy seen within the deep, distant cosmos.
“Happenstance created this alluring comparison,” says choose Ed Bloomer.
“Our view of Andromeda is fastened, whereas rocky materials burning up in our environment flares up as a fireball for just some seconds.
“For just a moment, the annihilation of an object no bigger than a football steals the attention from the home of over a trillion stars.”
Best younger photographer
Orion, the Horsehead and the Flame in H-alpha, by Daniele Borsari, gained this 12 months’s Young Photographer prize
The judges additionally had the difficult job of choosing this 12 months’s ZWO Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year, which went to Daniele Borsari (aged 15) for his picture Orion, the Horsehead and the Flame in H-Alpha.
It exhibits one of the crucial well-known areas of the winter sky: the area across the Orion Nebula, which kinds the sword hanging beneath the Hunter’s belt.
“It never ceases to amaze me how the quality of images in the Young category can rival those in the overall competition – and few demonstrate that more clearly than this one,” says choose Greg Brown.
“Choosing black and white over brilliant colors, and focusing purely on the shapes and contours of the nebulae, is a daring determination that has paid off.
“The Orion, Horsehead and Flame Nebulae have rarely looked so dynamic, and it’s easy to imagine these vast gas clouds roiling and billowing through space.”
2025 competitors winners
Images have been submitted to Astronomy Photographer of the Year in eight classes and three particular prizes:
Aurorae
Galaxies
Our Moon
Our Sun
People and Space
Planets, Comets and Asteroids
Skyscapes
Stars and Nebulae
Young competitors
Best newcomer
Annie Maunder Open Category
See all of the winners of the completely different classes on this 12 months’s competitors, together with runners-up and extremely counseled, beneath.
And catch the successful photographs for your self up-close on the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London from 12 September 2025.
For particulars, and for extra data on getting into subsequent 12 months, go to www.rmg.co.uk/astrophoto.