Military and Veterans Affinity Group: Advocacy
As part of the Military and Veterans AG's spotlight month, AG co-lead Helen Mills discusses how to be an ally and advocate for the military and veteran community. Source
NGC 1360: The Robin’s Egg Nebula
Photo of the Day This pretty nebula lies some 1,500 light-years away, its shape and color in this telescopic view reminiscent of a robin's egg. The cosmic cloud spans about 3 light-years, nestled securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation of the Furnace (Fornax). Recognized as a planetary nebula, egg-shaped NGC 1360 doesn't [...]
Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy
Photo of the Day What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the top? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration shows that [...]
Big Wins and Bigger Heart: Highlights from the PCES Outreach Challenge #1
SWE Global Ambassador Kannagi Kumari shares the results of this exciting outreach challenge, including a Python workshop and a team that generously shared their prize. Source
Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy
Photo of the Day What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the side? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration shows that [...]
Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Honor STEM leaders within the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities with this compilation of online stories and resources from SWE. Source
The Surface of Venus from Venera 14
Photo of the Day If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and a featureless [...]
Yogi and Friends in 3D
Photo of the Day This picture from July 1997 shows a ramp from the Pathfinder lander, the Sojourner robot rover, deflated landing airbags, a couch, Barnacle Bill and Yogi Rock appear together in this 3D stereo view of the surface of Mars. Barnacle Bill is the rock just left of the house cat-sized, solar-paneled [...]
SWENext Celebrates 10 Years of Inspiring the Next Generation
A decade of highlights from SWE’s efforts nurturing future STEM stars. Source
IXPE Explores a Black Hole Jet
Photo of the Day How do black holes create X-rays? Answering this long-standing question was significantly advanced recently with data taken by NASA’s IXPE satellite. X-rays cannot exit a black hole, but they can be created in the energetic environment nearby, in particular by a jet of particles moving outward. By observing X-ray light [...]