{"id":904884,"date":"2026-09-25T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904884\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:00:09","slug":"15-year-old-greek-photographer-wins-international-astronomy-award-the-greek-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904884\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old Greek photographer wins international astronomy award \u2013 The Greek Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen-year-old Greek photographer Nikos Strimpoulis has been named Young Astronomy <a href=\"https:\/\/greekherald.com.au\/culture\/history\/nellys-world-renowned-greek-photographer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Photographer<\/a> of the Year by the Royal Observatory Greenwich as part of the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 awards, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbomb.gr\/kosmos\/story\/1764384\/enas-15xronos-ellinas-fotografos-diakrithike-se-diethni-vraveia-gia-mia-spania-lipsi-tis-selinis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">newsbomb.gr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His winning photograph, titled \u201cMineral Moon,\u201d offers a highly detailed close-up of the Moon, revealing subtle orange and blue tones across its surface. Strimpoulis captured the image in March 2025 from Paleo Faliro, Greece, using a Sky-Watcher Dobsonian 6-inch telescope and a cooled color astronomy camera.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph highlights the Moon\u2019s dark maria\u2014ancient lava plains\u2014and its brighter highlands, shaped by billions of years of impacts. Notable features include the Mare Serenitatis, Mare Imbrium, and the Montes Apenninus mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>The distinctive colors are linked to mineral deposits containing iron and titanium, giving the image its \u201cMineral Moon\u201d title.<\/p>\n<p>Strimpoulis received a \u00a31,500 prize and a one-year subscription to\u00a0BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Judge Steve Marsh praised the young photographer for exploring details often overlooked in lunar photography.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbomb.gr\/kosmos\/story\/1764384\/enas-15xronos-ellinas-fotografos-diakrithike-se-diethni-vraveia-gia-mia-spania-lipsi-tis-selinis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">newsbomb.gr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen-year-old Greek photographer Nikos Strimpoulis has been named Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year by the Royal Observatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,84984,128],"class_list":["post-904884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-greek-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}