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Ali Alobaidly won the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year with his image of the Shark Nebula, captured over 28 hours in Kuwait. The award included £10,000 and recognition for the image's high-quality detail and poetic composition.
Ali Alobaidly’s image of the Shark Nebula, captured in Kuwait and titled The Quiet Predator, won the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year, earning £10,000; the Shark Nebula sits about 650 light-years away as a dark nebula. The 2026 contest drew around 4,000 entries from 66 countries. 15-year-old Nikolaos Strimpoulis won the ZWO Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year for Mineral Moon, and an exhibition of the winning photos opens Sept 18 at the National Maritime Museum in London.
Ali Alobaidly won the 18th ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year with 'The Quiet Predator,' a striking image of the Shark Nebula that earned £10,000. The same photo also claimed the Stars and Nebulae category. Fifteen-year-old Nikolaos Strimpoulis won the ZWO Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year with 'Mineral Moon.' All category winners will be exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in London starting Sept 18, 2026.