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The Royal Observatory Greenwich announced the winners and some impressive runners-up in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition.
"Known since ancient times as the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades Cluster, to the right of the image, consists of around a thousand stars, which formed together about 100 million years ago." – Rogelio Bernal Andreo
"Resembling a giant eye looking across 700 light years of space, the Helix Nebula is one of the closest planetary nebula to Earth." – David Fitz-Henry
"The entire nebula currently covers an area of the sky about 36 times bigger than the full Moon, and is still expanding." – J.P. Metsävainio
"The Sun’s boiling surface curves away beneath us in this evocative shot that conveys the scale and violence of our star. The region of solar activity on the left could engulf the Earth several times over with room to spare." – Alexandra Hart
"Sun and moon sink together behind a Kenyan savannah skyline, locked in an eclipse in which the moon is silhouetted against the sun’s bright disc." – Eugen Kamenew
"Rock formations in the Wairarapa district of New Zealand create a stark foreground and contrast to the dusty clouds dancing across the Milky Way." – Chris Murphy