France's Orlann Ombissa-Dzangue and Czech Republic's Marcela Pirkova compete during a women's 60m heat at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun on March 7, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo/Profimedia)

Russia's Andrey Rublev tries to remove a cricket from the court during the men's singles match against USA's Sebastian Korda on day six of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 19, 2024. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)

Benfica's Jessica Silva, right, fights for the ball with Barcelona's Ingrid Syrstad Engen during the women's Champions League group A soccer match between SL Benfica and FC Barcelona at the Benfica Campus in Seixal, outside Lisbon, Wednesday, January 31, 2024. (Photo by Armando Franca/AP Photo)

Spain's Lucia Corrales, left and Canada's Florianne Jourde fight for the ball during a U-20 Women's World Cup round of sixteen soccer match in Cali, Colombia, Wednesday, September 11, 2024. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)

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.

A child poses on the runway during a party hosted by Chasing Fireflies to introduce Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers children's collection at Duff's Cakemix on September 24, 2015 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Chasing Fireflies)

A scorpion crawls out of the mouth of Thailand's Scorpion Queen and Ripley's Ambassador Kanchana Kaetkaew (also spelled Kanjana Ketkaew), at the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in Pattaya city, Chonburi province, Thailand, 03 June 2017. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA)

Czech Republic's Jakub Mensik celebrates after winning the men's singles quarter-final match against Russia's Andrey Rublev at the ATP Qatar Open tennis tournament in Doha on February 22, 2024. (Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP Photo)