Empowering Graduate Women in SWE: Meet the GradSWE Affinity Group
As part of their affinity group's spotlight month, GradSWE reviews their mission and highlights their leadership. Source
Overcoming Barriers as a Woman Engineer in Academia: My Experience With SWE’s ALWE Program
Dr. Brittany MacDonald-MacAulay, the first full-time female engineering instructor in the history of her university, reflects on her experience in SWE’s ALWE program. Source
Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS from Hubble
Photo of the Day Discovered on July 1 with the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, 3I/ATLAS is so designated as the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. It follows 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and the comet 2I/Borisov in 2019. Also known as C/2025 [...]
The Double Cluster in Perseus
Photo of the Day This stunning starfield spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. It holds the famous pair of open star clusters, h and Chi Persei. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much [...]
Philadelphia-Area SWE Sections Celebrate 75 Years of SWE
Nearly 70 women and allies came together for an afternoon of history, networking, and empowerment. Source
NGC 6072: A Complex Planetary Nebula from Webb
Photo of the Day Why is this nebula so complex? The Webb Space Telescope has imaged a nebula in great detail that is thought to have emerged from a Sun-like star. NGC 6072 has been resolved into one of the more unusual and complex examples of planetary nebula. The featured image is in infrared [...]
Join the #OneSWE Challenge to Win a WE25 Registration!
Celebrate the power of your SWE membership at the annual conference in New Orleans. Source
From Volunteer to Visionary: Priti Kulkarni’s SWE Journey
Priti Kulkarni shares the evolution of her involvement with SWE and the leadership skills she has gained along the way. Source
Milky Way and Exploding Meteor
Photo of the Day In about a week the Perseid Meteor Shower will reach its maximum. Grains of icy rock will streak across the sky as they evaporate during entry into Earth's atmosphere. These grains were shed from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids result from the annual crossing of the Earth through Comet Swift-Tuttle's orbit, [...]
Fireflies, Meteors, and Milky Way
Photo of the Day Taken on July 29 and July 30, a registered and stacked series of exposures creates this dreamlike view of a northern summer night. Multiple firefly flashes streak across the foreground as the luminous Milky Way arcs above the horizon in the Sierra de Órganos national park of central Mexico, The [...]