The best photos of space 2017

The Royal Observatory Greenwich the competition was divided into 9 categories, with the following to be awarded: 2 special awards. The winners will be announced September 14, and then from September 16, the photographs will be exhibited for visitors at the Astronomy Centre. This year, for the first time in the nine years since the competition began, the judges received the photographs Uranus and asteroids. They were greeted with a 3800 photos from what 91 posturein.

Let's see what they look like comets, Roman road, Cigar galaxy, star Sirius and other stunning 'galaxies, far, far away'.

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Gallery – Best Space Photos 2017

Orion is 1467 light years away. The image shows a nebula.

Northern lights over the snowy treetops

Milky Way over the Chinese Observatory

A comet over the Isle of Portland in the south of Great Britain

The star IC443 is the remnant of a supernova, an explosion that occurred 30,000 years ago.

The stars rotate in a concentric circle at the moment we switch from winter time to summer time.

The Milky Way stretches across the Sierra Mountains.

The Cigar Galaxy is thought to be the closest space in the universe to us.

Stars over the harbor in Tromsø