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A French photographer has a top photography contest. Nicolas Lefaudeux won the prestigious prize in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020 competition. This is by the Royal Observatory in the UK. Mr Lefaudeux won the $17,000 prize for his photo of our closest galaxy - the Andromeda galaxy. Andromeda two million light years from Earth. It our Milky Way galaxy. Lefaudeux a special technique tilt-shift to his photo. The result is a spectacular photo that Andromeda amazingly close to us. In the photo, we can clearly the bright, oval-shaped galaxy in the darkness of space. It is surrounded by countless other stars and celestial objects.

Mr Lefaudeux is a celebrated astronomy photographer. His winning photo is "Andromeda Galaxy at Arm's Length". It thousands of other photos from the world's leading photographers. The photo won in the "Galaxies" category, as well as the competition's overall best photograph. Lefaudeux reporters he was very surprised at the top prize. He said: "I was really not to the overall winner. I had some hopes for being placed in the galaxy category, as I the sense of depth given to the galaxy." He that he was "over the Moon" when he got the news that he had the prize. Reporters said he could now " for the stars" and win more prizes.