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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas

By |2025-09-02T13:44:25-04:00September 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the orange emission nebula at the far right of the featured picture. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front [...]

NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula

By |2025-08-31T13:44:26-04:00August 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What created this unusual planetary nebula? Dubbed the Pillow Nebula and the Flying Carpet Nebula, NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of [...]

A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus

By |2025-08-29T13:44:24-04:00August 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day The diffuse hydrogen-alpha glow of emission region Sh2-27 fills this cosmic scene. The field of view spans nearly 3 degrees across the nebula-rich constellation Ophiuchus toward the central Milky Way. A Dark Veil of wispy interstellar dust clouds draped across the foreground is chiefly identified as LDN 234 and LDN [...]

WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk

By |2025-08-27T13:44:24-04:00August 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day That yellow spot -- what is it? It's a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, some 4.5 billion years ago. Although we can't look into the past and [...]

How Engineer Kathleen Grover Returned to Work After an Eight-Year Career Break

By |2025-08-26T16:33:00-04:00August 26th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Kathleen Grover shares what it was like to interview, secure a role, and transition back to the STEM workforce. Plus, learn about SWE’s reentry resources for engineers. Source

Hands-On Technical Workshops Return to 2026 North American WE Locals

By |2025-08-26T15:44:00-04:00August 26th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Have you heard the news? The wildly popular hands-on technical workshop sessions are returning to a WE Local conference near you! Have an idea for a technical workshop? We want to hear from you. Source

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