A photo of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has won this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London.
A team of amateur astronomers led by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty captured the surprising discovery.
Scientists are now investigating the newly discovered giant cloud of gas.
It could be the largest such structure in the nearby environment in the Universe.
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Well that’s a pretty fucking insane picture. Total perspective vortex vibes. All it needs is a wee arrow with ‘you are here’ in point 3 size font
More detail here: https://www.astrobin.com/1d8ivk/
