17:23 19 September 2013
Run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and BBC Sky at Night magazine, judges reviewed 1200 entries from across the world. The prize-winning snaps will be on display at the Greenwich Royal Observatory's Astronomy Centre from 19 September 2013.
See the winning image: "Milky Way emerges from a lighthouse in prize-winning photo"
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Highly Commended, Earth and Space category
Like fireworks on a celestial scale, the Perseid meteor shower seems to burst out of the night sky, thanks to a lack of light pollution at the Medicine Bow National Forest in Snowy Range, Wyoming, where the photo was captured. The picture combines 23 still images to visualise the movement of the meteors across the sky.
(Image: David Kingham/Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013)
