November Engineering Activity: Creating an Algorithm
This month we’re going create an algorithm for stacking cups in the same way a Computer Engineer might create an algorithm to tell a program what to do! Source
Computer Engineering Student Spotlight: Angela
Check out the interview below with Computer Engineering student Angela (Angie) to learn more about her experiences and how you can #BeThatEngineer. Source
A Day in the Life of Computer Scientist Rebekah Lester
Rebekah is a Technical Account Manager at Tableau, a Salesforce Company. Read on to learn more about her work in Computer Science! Source
Waves of the Great Lacerta Nebula
Photo of the Day It is one of the largest nebulas on the sky -- why isn't it better known? Roughly the same angular size as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Lacerta Nebula can be found toward the constellation of the Lizard (Lacerta). The emission nebula is difficult to see with wide-field binoculars because [...]
A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun
Photo of the Day rlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament's full extent was estimated to be over half of the Sun's radius -- more than 350,000 kilometers long. A filament is composed of hot [...]
Red Sprite Lightning over the Czech Republic
Photo of the Day What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35 years ago: red sprites. Research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about [...]
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
Photo of the Day How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth [...]
North America and the Pelican
Photo of the Day Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the emission region cataloged as NGC 7000. To the right, just off [...]
Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb
Photo of the Day Near the center of a nearby star-forming region lies a massive cluster containing some of the largest and hottest stars known. Collectively known as star cluster NGC 2070, these stars are part of the vast Tarantula Nebula and were captured in two kinds of infrared light by the new Webb [...]
An Iridescent Pileus Cloud over China
Photo of the Day Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The featured image was taken last month in [...]