Blazing comet tail is whipped by solar winds in astonishing astronomy photo

It was the last chance to see this comet shine.

An ethereal image of Comet Leonard traveling against the solar wind has taken the top prize in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.

"This award is one of the highlights of my astrophotography work," Rhemannr said in a statement."All the effort that went into making this image a success was worth it." The winning image was one of a number of remarkable and unusual photos entered in the contest."There are some things you won't have seen before, and even some things that won't be seen again," Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said in the statement.

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