Dive into allyship and learn actionable tips to support women in engineering at the professional and collegiate levels with members of the HeForSWE Affinity Group! Source
Photo of the Day It was a night of 100,000 meteors. The Great Meteor Storm of 1833 was perhaps the most impressive meteor event in recent history. Best visible over eastern North America during the pre-dawn hours of November 13, many people -- including a young Abraham Lincoln -- were woken up to see [...]
Dr. Hannah Yang shares how to design an ideal home workspace that encourages productivity and creativity. Source
Photo of the Day Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen with the unaided eye even from the depths [...]
Photo of the Day Are Saturn's auroras like Earth's? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft monitored Saturn's North Pole simultaneously during Cassini's final orbits around the gas giant in September 2017. During this time, Saturn's tilt caused its North Pole to be clearly visible from Earth. The [...]
Photo of the Day Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory’s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth's annual Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest multi-purpose Schmidt telescope in [...]
Each month, SWE spotlights one of our 22 Affinity Groups (AGs). As part of their spotlight month, the HeForSWE AG shares their leadership and goals. Source
While orbiting approximately 250 miles above Earth, external cameras aboard the International Space Station captured the sixth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship after liftoff at 4 pm CST on Tuesday, November 19. For Artemis III, the first crewed return to the Moon in over 50 years, NASA is working with SpaceX to develop Starship as [...]
Hear from some of the 2024 APEX Award recipients speaking about their career milestones and learning lessons. Source
SWE members Kayli Battel, Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Kiran Malik, and Sai Naveena share advice on financial fearlessness, based on their popular talk at WE24. Source
