Space and Physics
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards features thousands of entries from countries all across the world. Space correspondent Dr Alfredo Carpineti takes us to The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and speaks to Dr Ed Bloomer, one of the judges, to get some top tips and give you the edge in this incredible international competition.
Entries to both the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15 competition and the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15 Young close at midday (GMT) on Friday 3 March 2023.
![A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]](https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/77446/aImg/81193/glittering-m.jpg)
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