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It's not just the Hubble Space Telescope that takes great pictures. And you don't even have to have a great big telescope for a great photo. English astrophotographer Damian Peach takes pictures that sometimes rival those of professional telescopes.

Here is a montage of images of Jupiter. Jupiter takes 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and Damian has taken a picture each year, starting in 2003. The 2003 picture is on the far left and the others proceed counterclockwise.

It's almost as though a Jovian month is one Earth year long. However you won't see the sort of seasonal changes on Jupiter that we do on Earth. That's because Jupiter's axis is nearly straight up and down, so it doesn't have seasons. (Earth's seasons are due to its 23° tilt.

Australian amateur astrophotographers are showcased in the David Malin Awards. The Fighting Dragons of Ara is the winner in the Deep Space category. This is a nebula in the constellation Ara and the shapes of the molecular clouds do look like fighting dragons.

David Malin's comment on the image:

Another category winner in the Australian David Malin awards: "South along Bucklands Lane". Centered, near the top of the image is the Southern Cross, part of the constellation Crux. To the left of it are the bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri. Lower in the sky are what looks like two small blue-white clouds. They are the Magellanic Clouds - and not clouds or nebulae, but neighboring galaxies to the Milky Way.