These 12 Mind-Blowing Space Images Just Won A Photography Competition

Last week, the winners were announced for the prestigious 2014 Astronomy Photography of the Year competition. Photographers competed to place in seven categories, as well as to be named the overall winner.

British photographer James Woodend took the top prize for his photograph, "Aurora over a Glacier Lagoon," taken in Iceland's Vatnajökull National Park, seen above. Besides honor, Woodend also won £1,500, or about $2,450.

Other winning photographs depict eclipses, galaxies, the Sun, the Milky Way. All of the selected photos will be on display in an exhibition put on by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, who also presented the competition.