Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010

A truly stunning photograph, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo taken in California, has won the deep space prize in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010. It's a panorama of part of Orion, including the famous three-starred belt. Apparently, it's also got the Horsehead nebula and the Orion nebula.

Just looking at it for a while sets my imagination racing and kind of helps put things in perspective a bit. We are mere specks, aren't we?

Photograph: Rogelio Bernal Andreo/National Maritime Museum