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.
4![An artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]](https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/76155/aImg/79193/jet-m.jpg)
