The overall winner in the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, M51 by Martin Pugh.
The "People and Space" winner was Laurent Laveder from France, with "Facing Venus-Jupiter Close Conjunction."
The "Our Solar System" category winner was Transit of Venus 2012 in Hydrogen-Alpha, by Chris Warren of the UK.
Earth and Space category winner, "Orion, Taurus and the Pleiades" by Masahiro Miyasaka from Japan.
"Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year" category winner was Jacob von Chorus from Canada