Winners of astrophotography competition announced – see the stunning pictures

Last updated: 2025/10/03 at 2:05 AM

News Room Published 3 October 2025

The Astrophotography Prize Photographer of the Year 2025 winners have been officially announced. There were 545 entries from 155 photographers across 35 countries who all submitted their spectacular images. Ani Shastri of the United States received the top honors for Deep Field Squid Nebula (Ou4), a stunning image of a nebula about six times the size of the full moon. The judging panel consisted of 20 astrophotographers from eight countries: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia (Picture: Paweł Radomski)

Winner of the Deep Space category, this image of the Constellation Crux was captured over several months. Paul Milvain, photographer, said: ‘This is a 9 panel mosaic of the Constellation Crux and surrounds, shot over a period of months, in RGB-HA’ (Pictuire: Paul Milvain)

Photographer Paweł Radomski said: ‘LDN1448 is a very rarely photographed dust region where intense star-forming processes are taking place.’ The image looks like two animals having fun, and was taken in Poland (Picture: Paweł Radomski)

Winning the Solar System category, as well as the 2025 Celestron Prize Winner, this striking image was taken in Italy. Entrant Alessandro Ravagnin said: ‘””Magnetic Shadow”, AR370, one of the most beautiful sunspot group of this solar cycle, captured with good seeing (0.5″ resolution)’ (Picture: Alessandro Ravagnin)

Damir Maksan said: ‘The International Space Station, captured with a telescope, transiting the moon travelling at 26,000 km/h. The crossing happened in 1/2 second’ (Picture: Damir Maksan)

The Milky Way is captured in a new way. Entrant Matteo Strassera said: ‘A 360 panorama showing the arch of the Milky Way stretching across the sky above the volcanic landscape of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands’ (Picture: Matteo Strassera)

Also winning the runner-up place, Matteo Strassera said: ‘An abandoned train stop in Namibia’s desert glows softly, embraced by the Milky Way’s arc, captured under one of the clearest skies on Earth’ (Picture: Matteo Strassera)

Ani Shastry pictured the Deep Field Squid Nebula, showing a breathtaking image of a nebula six times the size of the full moon. It was captured over a period of 51 hours at Sierra Remote Observatories in California with a PlaneWave CDK350 and ZWOASI6200MM camera (Picture: Ani Shastry)

Entrant Steeve Body said of this striking image: ‘A naturalistic widefield view of Vela, colour-enhanced using narrowband mapping: Hα to red, O III to blue, and S II to yellow’ (Picture: Steeve Body)

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