Competition the best photos in astronomy

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Competition the best photos in astronomy
Recently summed up the contest for the best photos in Astronomy «Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013." Photos of the competition included the incredible images of our night sky, startling and even a bit dramatic footage of huge galaxies. Let us rather a look at the winners.
2nd place. Green energy. Northern Lights in Norway.
Winner. These structures appear to be immutable and eternal in human terms, but their life is fleeting across the universe. Just a few thousand years the hard radiation from stars in this nebula, change the appearance of the structure beyond recognition.
Nomination "Earth and Space" Contender. Quadruple lunar halo over Spain. Sometimes the falling ice crystals in the atmosphere make a huge lens and around the sun or moon can be seen the rainbow and rainbow-colored halo. The brightest object in the sky in the upper part of the picture - it's the moon. Moon Light is refracted by falling hexagonal ice crystals to form around the moon round 22-degree halo.
Winner. Milky Way Galaxy. The galaxy, which contains the Earth, the solar system and all of the individual stars visible to the naked eye. Refers to a barred spiral galaxies. The diameter of the galaxy is about 30,000 parsecs (about 100,000 light-years, 1 quintillion kilometers) at an estimated average thickness of about 1000 light years. The galaxy contains, at the lowest estimate, about 200 billion stars.
2nd place. Colorful Rho Ophiuchi cloud - a binary star in the constellation Ophiuchus. The red supergiant Antares - one of the brightest stars in the night sky - lights yellow-red clouds in the upper left corner of the image. Rho Ophiuchi is located in the center of the blue nebula on the right. The distant globular cluster M4 visible just below Antares.
Nominated "Best Newcomer" award. The transit of Venus across the disk of the sun.
Nomination "Our Solar System" Contender. The sequence of rings shows an annular eclipse. Ring of Fire - is one of the most unusual astronomical phenomena. "Ring of Fire" - a rare phenomenon. On average, for 100 years, 237 solar eclipse happens, and only 14 of them - the ring-shaped. Read more in the article "The Ring of Fire in Australia."
1st place and overall winner of the contest photos in astronomy «Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013." Guiding Light to the stars.
Bidder. Globular cluster Omega Centauri. It is located at a distance of 18,300 light-years from us.

Winner. The solar corona.
Nominated "Young Astronomer photographer" Contender. Luna.
2nd place. Goodbye sun, hello moon.

2nd place. Each of these dark spots on the sun on the size of our Earth.
Nomination "deep space" Contender. Galaxies M81 and M82 in the constellation Ursa Major.
Bidder. Barred spiral galaxy (type SBc) NGC 253 in the constellation Sculptor. Located about 8 million light-years from Earth. In 1999, the space telescope "Chandra" found in X-rays unusual concentration of X-ray sources near the center of NGC 253. Four of these sources, tens of thousands of times more massive than the Sun, is 3 thousand light-years from the galactic core. These black holes are displaced by gravity to the center of the galaxy, in the future, can come together in a single supermassive black hole.
Nomination "People and Space" 2nd place. The man and the Milky Way.
Winner. Silhouettes on the background of the rising moon.
Nomination "robotic telescope" winner. Open Cluster Orion Trapezium.
Nomination "Earth and Space" Contender. Quadruple lunar halo over Spain. Sometimes the falling ice crystals in the atmosphere make a huge lens and around the sun or moon can be seen the rainbow and rainbow-colored halo. The brightest object in the sky in the upper part of the picture - it's the moon. Moon Light is refracted by falling hexagonal ice crystals to form around the moon round 22-degree halo.