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Scroll through this year's shortlisted images and vote for your favourite in the People's Choice Award.
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M16: the Pillars of Creation
© Diego Pisano, data: NASA/ESA/SCScI
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A Night with the Valkyries
© Jose Miguel Picon Chimelis
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M31: the Andromeda Galaxy
© Lukas Blomqvist
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Winter Light
© Mikkel Beiter
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A Crown on the Castle
© Donato Lioce
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Arctic Dragon
© Carina Letelier Baeza
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A Whale Sailing the Sun
© Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau
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M63, the Tidal Streams Around the Sunflower Galaxy
© Sophie Paulin, Jens Unger and Jakob Sahner
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Boo!
© Thomas Kast
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Run to Carina
© Vikas Chander
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Like Blue Lava
© Petr Horalek
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Nebulae of the Large Magellanic Cloud
© Jonathan Lodge
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Starlight Highway
© Tom Rae
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Total Solar Eclipse
© Gwenaël Blanck
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Cosmos in Reflection
© Jianfeng Dai
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M100 (The Blowdryer Galaxy) and Ceres
© Damon Mitchell Scotting
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A Cosmic Firework: the Geminid Meteor Shower
© Jakob Sahner
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SNR G156.2+5.7, a Faint Supernova Remnant in Auriga
© Bray Falls
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Meteor Shower Over the Lighthouse
© Yoshiki Abe
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The Stars Like Dust
© Billy Miao
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