Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Best entries so far

From spectacular photos of sunsets on Mars to amazing Saturn view, these photos were shortlisted for the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Take a look…

A Daytime Transit. Credit: Andrew McCarthy (USA)

Aurora in Murmansk. Credit: Vitaliy Novikov (Russia)

Chateau de Chambord. Credit: Benjamin Barakat (UK)

Dugi Otok - Variant A. Credit: Ivan Vucetic (Croatia)

Iceland Vortex. Credit: Larryn Rae (New Zealand)

Martian Sunset. Credit: John White (UK)

Moonrise over Jodrell Bank. Credit: Matt Naylor (UK)

NGC 2024 – Flame Nebula. Credit: Steven Mohr (Australia)

NGC 6188 SHOrgb by Cielaustral team. Credit: Jean-Claude Canonne, Didier Chaplain, Georges Chassaigne, Philippe Bernhard, Laurent Bourgon and Nicolas Outters (France)

NGC 6723, NGC 6726, NGC 6727 and NGC 6729 - Dark Molecular Cloud in Corona Australis. Credit: Steven Mohr (Australia)

Path of the Full Moon above the Sleeping City. Credit: Remi Leblanc-Messager (France)

Pleiades Sisters. Credit: Jashanpreet Singh Dingra (India), aged 14

Saturn at its Best. Credit: Damian Peach (UK)

Star Fall. Credit: Wang Zheng (China)

Star trails over the Lujiazui City Skyline. Credit: Daning Kai (China)

Star Watcher. Credit: Yang Sutie (China)

Sunrise of the Magic City. Credit: Jiajun Hua (China)

Sunspot Looking out into Space. Credit: Siu Fone Tang (USA)

The Cave. Credit: Markus van Hauten (Germany)

The Exceptionally Active Ion Tail of Comet 2020F8 SWAN. Credit: Gerald Rhemann (Austria)

The Full Moon in Moscow. Credit: Anna Kaunis (Russia)

The Magnetic Field of our Active Sun. Credit: Andrew McCarthy (USA)

The Milky Way on the Ancient Village. Credit: Zhang Xiao (China)

The Soul of Space (Close-up of the Soul Nebula). Credit: Kush Chandaria (UK), aged 13

The Star Observer. Credit: Antoni Cladera Barcelo (Spain)

The Tumult of the Sun. Credit: Hassan Hatami (Iran)

Waterfall. Credit: Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints (Israel)