Spectacular image of the Shark Nebula wins Royal Observatory Greenwich prize
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Kuwaiti photographer Ali Alobaidly has beaten thousands of amateur and professional photographers from around the world to bag the 2026 Royal Observatory Greenwich’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
The image – The Quiet Predator – captures the Shark Nebula, which lies almost 650 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is made of interstellar dust dense enough to block starlight with the blue-coloured areas in the image being “reflection nebulae” – clouds of interstellar
The image – The Quiet Predator – captures the Shark Nebula, which lies almost 650 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is made of interstellar dust dense enough to block starlight with the blue-coloured areas in the image being “reflection nebulae” – clouds of interstellar
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