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"Celestial Symphony"

A panorama of the Cygnus region of the "Milky Way from Gerakies, Cyprus. The foreground was captured during blue hour to achieve more detail on the distant mountains and trees directly in front of the camera."

Location: Gerakies, Nicosia District, Cyprus, 30 October 2024

Andreas Karaolis

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

one of my favourite bird-based echolalias courtesy of the go-away bird :)

“Cave of Stars”

Location: Nagato, Yamaguchi, Japan, 12 October 2024

Yoshiki Abe

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year

“Starlit Aspenscape”

Jeffrey Ji

A coyote leaps out of the way of a Mule Deer defending herself in Lamar Valley. March 2025.

“Milky Way Over Quiver Tree”

Jilanfeng Dai