Astrophotography can make you feel two very different things: tiny and insignificant in a vast universe or absolutely and complete amazed at our vast universe. For the photographers honored at the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, the universe is their muse. 500,000-km Solar Prominence EruptionCredit: PengFei Chou / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearTotal Solar EclipseCredit: Louis Egan / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year“The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is now in its seventeenth year and returns with an expert panel of judges from the worlds of art and astronomy,” a statement about the honorees says. “The winners of the competition’s nine categories, two special prizes and the overall winner will be announced on Thursday 11 September.”The Arctic FlowerCredit: Vincent Beudez / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearNGC 2997 The Antlia Cabbage GalaxyCredit: Xinran Li / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearMoonrise Over Villebois-LavaletteCredit: Flavien Beauvais / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year LRTimelapse 7.1.0 (Windows) – UNLICENSED, no commercial use allowed! Lunar Occultation of SaturnCredit: Chayaphon Phanitloet / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearLooking BeyondCredit: Chester Hall-Fernandez / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearInto the PastCredit: Jim Hildreth / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Jim HildrethRadiant Canopy The Lustrous Realms of the Running Chicken NebulaCredit: Rod Prazeres / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearGalactic Catch Salt and Vinegar With Your CosmosCredit: Paul Joels / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearFireworksCredit: Bence Tóth, Péter Feltóti, Bertalan Kecskés / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearEncounter Within One SecondCredit: Zhang Yanguang / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearComet Over WaikikiCredit: Ran Shen / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year SHEN_RANBlood Moon Rising Behind the City SkyscrapersCredit: Tianyao Yang / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearAurora Over Mono Lake A Rare Dance of LightCredit: Daniel Zafra / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Daniel Zafra PortillClose-up of a CometCredit: Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the YearA Rainbow Mosaic of the Rosette and the Christmas Tree NebulaeCredit: Shaoyu Zhang / ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year