Check out some of 2016's best astro**my photography
 

Check out some of 2016's best astro**my photography
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The moon shines with a new light in a brilliant photo taken by a photographer from China.*

The image (embedded below) shows Earth's natural satellite in the midst of a total solar eclipse on March 9 in Indonesia. Photographer Yu Jun won the top prize in 2016's Insight Astro**my Photographer of the Year competition for the image.

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"This is such a visually striking image, with its succession of fiery arcs all perfectly balanced around the pitch black circle of totality," Marek Kukula, a competition judge and astro**mer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, said in a statement. Read more...

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