The winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Awards have just been announced.
The APY 2024 winners, as voted by the official judging panel, were announced back in September 2024, but this year's People's Choice Award winner has just been revealed by the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
A view of bioluminescent plankton illuminates a beach on the island of Medhufaru in the Maldives, while the sparkling southern hemisphere night sky towers overhead. This is Like Blue Lava by Petr Horalek, which has been announced as the winner of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 People’s Choice Award.
It originally came Highly Commended in the Skyscapes category of the 2024 competition, as voted for by the judges.
Second place in the People's Choice Award for 2024 is Arctic Dragon, which depicts an awe-inspiring aurora display in the shape of a dragon. It was captured by Carina Letelier Baeza at the Arctic Henge in Iceland.
A Night with the Valkyries by Jose Miguel Picon Chimelis came in third place, which shows the Northern Lights over the Eystrahorn Mountain, Iceland.
The winning image, as voted by the judges, of Astronomy Photographer of the Year in 2024 was Distorted Shadows of the Moon’s Surface Created by an Annular Eclipse, by Ryan Imperio. It's a view of sunlight shining through craters on the Moon during the annular solar eclipse of October 2023.
And here's the People's Choice winner again, this time showing the full image rather than the cropped one at the top of this page.
