Admire the series of astronomical photos that won the 2014 award

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich (ROG), London has just announced a series of astronomical photos winning the 'Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014' competition.

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Photo 'Green aurora' appears in the sky Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland by photographer James Woodend, has defeated thousands of other excellent astronomical photos, winning the highest prize in the photo contest Dispatch 2014.

The jury of the contest shared: 'Woodend recorded the vivid, green aurora moment dancing in the night sky of Iceland, contrary to the icy beauty of Vatnajokull National Park below. It is a great combination. "

Photo of 'Green aurora' by photographer James Woodend won the top prize in the 'Astronomy photographer 2014' competition - Photo: Daily Mail

The 'Astronomy Photographer' Contest is held annually by Royal Greenwich Observatory (ROG) in partnership with BBC Night Sky magazine.

The 6th annual astronomy photo contest attracted more than 2,500 entries from amateur and professional photographers from 51 countries around the world.

Here are the best astronomy photos of 2014:

Photo of 'Horsehead Nebula' taken in new light by photographer Bill Snyder - (Photo: Daily Mail)

Photographer Chris Murphy captured the stunning image of New Zealand rocky contrasting dust clouds dancing on the Milky Way in clean, unpolluted air.Everything becomes clear and sharp - (Photo: Daily Mail)

IC 1340 is part of the Veil nebula, a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus, 1470 light-years from Earth.Photograph taken by Finnish photographer JP Metsävainio - (Photo: Daily Mail)

Activities on the Sun's surface were taken by photographer Alexandra Hart - (Photo: Daily Mail)

The zodiacal image grows gradually, from the horizon forming a pyramid with the top being Venus.This beautiful photo is taken by photographer Julie Fletcher in Eyre Lake Kati Thanda area - (Photo: Daily Mail)

The spiral nebula is like a giant eye in space, located 700 light years from Earth, taken by photographer David Fitz-Henry - (Photo: Daily Mail)

The picture shows the curvature of the earth, and the towering Rocky Mountains form small creases on the picture.Photo taken by photographer Patrick Cullis - (Photo: Daily Mail)

Photographer Matt James captures a wind farm in the town of Bungendore, Australia (left), an eclipse of a photographer Catalin Beldea (right) - (Photo: Daily Mail)

Center image NGC 1999, located under the Orion constellation belt by photographer Marco Lorenzi - (Photo: Daily Mail)