Cuộc thi Hình ảnh của năm là một cuộc thi bắt đầu được tổ chức từ 2006. It aims to identify the best freely licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status. Hình ảnh của các ứng viên năm nay được liệt kê tại Commons:Featured pictures/chronological/2025.
Second place: Protester carrying a sign with a slogan at rally in support of Ukraine, outside Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, United States, 26 February 2022. Ghi công: Becker1999 / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Second place: Banna children in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts. Ghi công: WAVRIK(CC-BY-SA 4.0)
Third place: Young stars form in 'The Pillars of Creation' as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared camera Ghi công: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) (public domain)
Third place: Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Ghi công: StevenTerblanche(CC BY SA 4.0)
First place: Evolution of a Tornado: Composite of eight images shot in sequence as a tornado formed in Kansas. – Ghi công: JasonWeingart (CC BY-SA 4.0)
First place: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. – Ghi công: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute (public domain)
Vị trí đầu tiên': Hai con bướm Julia (Dryas iulia) đang uống nước mắt của rùa ở Ecuador. Những chú rùa bình thản cho phép lũ bướm nhấm nháp nước mắt trong khi chúng nằm phơi nắng trên một khúc gỗ. Hành động "uống nước mắt" này là một hiện tượng gọi là lachryphagy. Attribution: amalavida.tv (flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Vị trí thứ ba: High above Tocopilla, Chile, one of SQMs Boxcabs coasts downhill to the Reverso switchback. Attribution: Kabelleger / David Gubler (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vị trí thứ hai: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Flickr)
Vị trí thứ ba: High-speed photography of a light bulb shot with an airsoft pistol (positioned right of the lamp). Stefan Krause, Germany (User:Ritchyblack)
Vị trí đầu tiên': A view of the lake Bondhus in Norway. In the background a view of the Bondhus Glacier as a part of the Folgefonna Glacier. (POTD) Heinrich Pniok (Alchemist-hp / pse-mendelejew.de)
Vị trí đầu tiên': In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). (POTD) – Credit:
Vị trí thứ hai: Stari Most, the "Old Bridge", which connects the two banks of river Neretva, has been a symbol of Mostar for centuries. This view from north shows Helebija tower to the left and Tara tower to the right. It was made from the minaret of Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque. (POTD) – Credit: Own work by Ramirez. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Vị trí đầu tiên': Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India. (POTD) – Ghi công: Wikimedian Paulrudd. (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
Vị trí thứ ba: The Russian military honor guard welcomes U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, June 26, 2009. Mullen is on a three-day trip to the country, meeting with counterparts and touring the Russian military academy. (POTD) – Ghi công: MC1 Chad J. McNeeley. (PD US Navy)