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2026 SWE Recognition Recipients: Celebrating Impact in Engineering and STEM

By |2026-09-30T14:22:00-04:00September 30th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

Meet the 2026 Society of Women Engineers recognition recipients whose achievements, leadership, and service are making an impact across the engineering community.Read more at All Together

SWE Celebrates Women in Engineering From the Hispanic Community

By |2026-09-28T12:35:00-04:00September 28th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

At the Society of Women Engineers, we are delighted to share the achievements of accomplished women engineers from the Hispanic community who are inspiring others in their STEM journey.  Join SWE in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and cheering on these talented individuals and their contributions. Joan Melendez Misner A senior spacecraft systems integration engineer at...Read [...]

Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way

By |2026-09-26T17:44:24-04:00September 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor trail was captured next to the central Milky Way, whose dark interstellar dust clouds and luminous starlight reach above the horizon. [...]

What Will the Family Think? Navigating Expectations in Latino Culture

By |2026-09-25T11:21:00-04:00September 25th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

As part of their Affinity Group Spotlight Month, Latinos AG lead Myra Zhinin Rogers discusses balancing the weight of generational dreams with the freedom to define your own path.Read more at All Together

The Ghosts of Five Supernovas

By |2026-09-24T17:44:28-04:00September 24th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled together, in the constellation of Auriga (the charioteer). From [...]

A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin

By |2026-09-23T17:44:32-04:00September 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its monthly monitoring of the Moon, captured today’s images [...]

Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun

By |2026-09-22T17:44:24-04:00September 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields visible around the Sun's bright disk. Sunspots typically last for weeks and were expected, since these spots were seen previously. It isn’t the International Space Station (ISS), the [...]

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