Our sun, runner-up: A Sun Yawn by Zhang Yanguang
A sequence documents the eruption of a massive solar prominence, originating as a small protrusion from the sun’s surface that expanded into an enormous plasma structure before dissipating into the void. Using 11 images taken about 12 minutes apart, the photographer in Fujian, China, documented this entire celestial event – as if the sun had let out a cosmic yawn.
