SWE Affinity Groups Celebrate a Stellar 2025
Several SWE Affinity Groups shared their highlights from this year and hinted at some of their plans for 2026. Source
SWE’s Most Popular Content of 2025
What women in engineering read, watched, loved, and learned this year on the SWE blog, podcast, magazine, and learning center. Source
The Heart of the Soul Nebula
Photo of the Day This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, the telescopic field of view spans only a small part of the much larger Heart and Soul nebulae. At [...]
Inside the 2025 SWE Korea Conference: Celebrating Connection, Engineering, and Growth
Over 150 engineers gathered to share experiences, foster collaboration, and empower women in technology at the 2025 SWE Korea conference. Source
Flying Over the Earth at Night
Photo of the Day Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city [...]
The Flexibility Divide: How Global Return-to-Office Mandates Threaten Women’s Progress in STEM
As the world turns back toward the office, the gains from flexibility in the workspace hang in the balance. The real question isn’t whether flexibility will last, but whether progress can survive without it. Source
The Sun and Its Missing Colors
Photo of the Day It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun [...]
The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae
Photo of the Day Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discovered, they are revealed in unprecedented detail in this deep telescopic image centered on KX And and composed from over 692 hours of combined image data. In fact, KX And is spectroscopically found to [...]
Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk
Photo of the Day What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the entire sky as seen from a simulated camera plunging toward a 4-million-solar-mass black hole, similar to the one at the center of our galaxy. The camera lies about 16 million [...]
M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center
Photo of the Day What's happening in the center of nearby spiral galaxy M77? The face-on galaxy lies a mere 47 million light-years away toward the constellation of the Sea Monster (Cetus). At that estimated distance, this gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across. Also known as NGC 1068, its compact and [...]