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Solar Flare X1 from AR2994 in ?Motion? ? Miguel Claro Photograph of the Sun taken from a 27-minute timelapse of a solar, flare which took place on 30 April 2022. Taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit ED120 telescope, Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter, Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount, Player One Apollo M-Max Solar camera, 840 mm, 900 frames at 9.1 ms per frame (recorded as video at 109 FPS) Location: Dark Sky Alqueva region, ?vora district, Portugal

See the remarkable photos up for Astronomy Photographer of the Year

5 July 2023

From a solar flare to the Jellyfish Nebula, these are some of the photographs in the running for the annual competition organised by the Royal Observatory in London, UK

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100??C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

26 October 2022

The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels as 266 iPhones and will, over the course of the next 10 years, help researchers study billions of galaxies

FEATURE - Clouds of Hydrogen Gas ? Simon Tang Clouds of hydrogen gas give way as the magnetic field lines of the sun snap and clash together. This display of nature creates astonishing features, known as prominences, on the limb of the Sun. Taken with QHYCCD QHY5III-174M camera, 5040mm f/33.6, 1000 x 12-millisecond frame exposures Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

Stunning solar prominences shine in photography competition

5 July 2022

This photograph of solar features called prominences is one of the dazzling cosmic images shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK

Here are the Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners

16 September 2021

These images of the sun, the moon and the planets of the solar system took some of the top prizes in this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

NASA image captures powerful energy at the heart of the Milky Way

16 June 2021

Bright threads of energy and gas plumes interweave at the Milky Way's heart in a new NASA image. It provides deeper information about the galaxy and solar weather that can affect Earth

Rare images show role of collisions in galactic evolution

27 January 2021

These six rare and exquisite images of galactic evolution were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. They show what happens when galaxies collide and merge

Stunning night sky pictures shortlisted for astronomy photo prize

22 July 2020

Images of the night sky taken from an Australian cave and a desert in Jordan are among the shortlisted entries for the 2020 Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Psychedelic skies over Chile reveal the full extent of light pollution

27 May 2020

An image taken by astronomer Juan Carlos Munoz of the night sky above Santiago, Chile, uses optical techniques to reveal the extent of light pollution in major cities even while under lockdown

See the bright lights and spectacular colours of our shining universe

18 July 2018

The pictures in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s astronomy photography competition show the many types and colours of light that shine through our universe