The Royal Observatory just announced its Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2013 winners. Australian photographer Mark Gee was chosen among a thousand amateur and professional photographers around the globe to win the top title. His work is part of an exhibition of the winning photographers, which opened on Sept. 19 at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The Royal Observatory shared with us the winners and notable mentions of the competition. Their descriptions of the prizewinners can be found below the images.

Presentation run of beautiful candidates for the Miss France 2020 pageant and press conference of the MIss France 2020 election at the Hotel Inter Continental in Paris, France on November 15, 2019. The pageant will be the 90th edition of the Miss France, slated 14 December 2019 at the Le Dôme de Marseille in Marseille. (Photo by Romuald Meigneux/SIPA Press)

Picture dated January 16th, 2023 the Red Arrows training over RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The Red Arrows continued their winter training over RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire yesterday, Monday. The planes were seen soaring across the sky and leaving trails of smoke as they practised their famous aircraft formations. The vapour trails were illuminated by the sunlight as the planes rehearsed in the late afternoon. (Photo by Caroline Haycock/Bav Media)

Artist Le Pustra and organiser Else Edelstahl pose for a picture at Simon Dach Strasse, a street filled with many bars, in Berlin, Germany, August 28, 2016. Else Edelstahl organises the party series “Boheme Sauvage”, in which people dress up in 1920s style, celebrating Berlin nightlife of a past era. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)

Three young women in their 20s brawling on a busy street on the route from the track to the town centre during day four of the William Hill St Leger Festival at Doncaster Racecourse, England on September 14, 2019. (Photo by Nb press ltd)

In this Saturday, March 3, 2018, photo, a contestant gets ready to throw a hatchet at a wooden bull's-eye at the Kick Axe Throwing venue in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Kick Axe Throwing is the first bar in New York City to pick up on a nationwide trend of ax throwing, a growing sport that some enthusiasts hope will take off the way bowling did in the last century. (Photo by Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)

A woman rides a custom bike during "Bike Kill 12" in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, October 31, 2015. "Bike Kill" is an annual gathering of builders and riders of home-made bicycles that culminates in a tall bike jousting competition. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters)

Maddy Ashford and fellow wrestler and trainer Paul Sargeant at a training session at The Lancashire Wrestling Federation in Chorley, UK on October 9, 2024. Maddy Ashford is still at school and is a wrestler taking the ring by storm and has competed in 40 WWE-style competitions in just 10 months. (Photo by William Lailey/South West News Service)