Photographer Nigel Stanbury has won the top prize in the South Downs to Deep Space category at the South Downs National Park's astrophotography competition.
Taken with a 150mm telescope, the photo required 22 hours of exposure over three nights to reveal the colors and finer details. The result is a vibrant comic spectacle – showing a galactic “jellyfish” formed from a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago.
