STUNNING images of the universe have been revealed as part of a celestial photography competition.<\/p>\n
The 2020 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards received lots of impressive applications and you can see some of them below.<\/p>\n
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The winners of the Insight Investment sponsored competition will be revealed via an online Royal Museums Greenwich event on September 10.<\/p>\n
Snapshots in the running for a prize include images of far off galaxies and celestial displays with Earthly backdrops.<\/p>\n
This year has seen a record number of people enter the competition from almost 70 countries.<\/p>\n
It's said to be the biggest space photography competition in the world.<\/p>\n
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This image, called Galatic Portal, was captured by a US-based photographer.<\/p>\n
Marcin Zajac took this photo in Australia in the coastal town of Kiama.<\/p>\n
He went inside a cave to show how stunning the Milky Way looks from that perspective. <\/p>\n
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UK entrant Phil Halper is responsible for this eerie image of the Northern Lights.<\/p>\n
It shows the famous Geysir of Iceland being outshone by an aurora.<\/p>\n
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Canadian astronomy photographer Terry Robison is responsible for this out-of-this-world image.<\/p>\n
It shows the NGC 253 - StarbustGalaxy.<\/p>\n
This can be found in the Sculptor constellation and is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible to us on Earth.<\/p>\n
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Andreas Ettl is a potential winner from Germany who had to wait patiently to get this shot over an idyllic fishing villagein Norway.<\/p>\n
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Fans of the London skyline might think this should be the winner.<\/p>\n
This snapshot of the Full Moon and The Shard was taken by Mathew Browne.<\/p>\n
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Italian entrant Mario Cogo hopes to win with this image of a nebula.<\/p>\n
This was taken under the dark Namibian sky over two nights in 2019.<\/p>\n
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This image shows the Milky Way above the Moai at Ahu Akivi, a sacred place in Easter Island.<\/p>\n
It was taken by Dai Jianfeng, an entrant from China.<\/p>\n
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This image shows a visible sunspot.<\/p>\n
It's been coloured and enhanced to create this portal-like effect.<\/p>\n
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This mystical bat-like dust cloud was created when a star exploded.<\/p>\n
The enhanced image, by Josep Drudis, shows a section of the Veil Nebula that looks like a bat.<\/p>\n
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And, astronomers claim to havefound a mysterious spacestructure spanning 1.4 billion light years across called the South Pole Wall.<\/p>\n
What's your favourite photo in the competition? Let us know in the comments...<\/p>\n
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