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These breathtaking photographs are the winning entries of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards.

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As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in ...

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.