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The AI Paradox: How AI Could Widen — or Close — Gender Gaps

By |2026-06-22T13:15:00-04:00June 22nd, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

AI-enabled roles are rapidly reshaping the global workforce. Drawing on global labor data, industry reports, and emerging research on AI adoption, the SWE Research Division examines ways AI is perpetuating workplace gender disparities.Read more at All Together

Daytime Moon Meets Evening Star

By |2026-06-20T16:44:57-04:00June 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Venus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies. For evening sky gazers on June 17, the celestial beacon rose after sunset close by a young, slender, crescent Moon. But from some locations [...]

Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center

By |2026-06-18T16:44:28-04:00June 18th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Do you see that blue blob to the lower right of the image center? Astronomers think that it shows where a massive star exploded as a supernova whose light reached Earth 1,700 years ago. The image combines optical data from the PanSTARRS telescopes in Hawaii (background stars in red, green, [...]

Longmore 8: The Hamster Wheel Nebula

By |2026-06-17T16:44:26-04:00June 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How did a hamster wheel get into space? The Hamster Wheel Nebula (Longmore 8) was discovered by Andrew Longmore in 1976 as a part of a larger survey of the southern sky. This survey employed several improvements in photographic technology, including the use of highly sensitive film, to capture deeper [...]

More Than One Community: How SWE’s Community Partners Connect You Across STEM

By |2026-06-16T16:15:00-04:00June 16th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE’s collaboration with partner organizations helps members build connections across multiple STEM communities and professional identities.Read more at All Together

Triple Shockwave from Sun Crossing Rocket

By |2026-06-15T16:45:09-04:00June 15th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening to this Sun-crossing rocket? The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, visible on the upper left, launched only about one minute before this amazing image was captured. As it rose to low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, in late May, the rocket became supersonic before it crossed the [...]

10 Days of Venus and Jupiter

By |2026-06-14T16:44:33-04:00June 14th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Venus and Jupiter may have caught your attention lately. The recent close conjunction of the two brightest planets in recent evening skies has been hard to miss. With Jupiter at the top, starting on May 30 and ending on June 8, their close approach was chronicled daily, left to right, [...]

Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury

By |2026-06-12T16:44:33-04:00June 12th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won't need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you'll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In fact, on June 9 the two brightest planets were in close conjunction, separated on [...]

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