Affinity Group Spotlight: African American Affinity Group
Get to know SWE’s African American Affinity Group co-leads and their plans for the community this year. Source
Einstein Ring Surrounds Nearby Galaxy Center
Photo of the Day Do you see the ring? If you look very closely at the center of the featured galaxy NGC 6505, a ring becomes evident. It is the gravity of NGC 6505, the nearby (z = 0.042) elliptical galaxy that you can easily see, that is magnifying and distorting the image of [...]
M41: The Little Beehive Star Cluster
Photo of the Day Why are there so many bright blue stars? Stars are usually born in clusters, and the brightest and most massive of these stars typically glow blue. Less-bright, non-blue stars like our Sun surely also exist in this M41 star cluster but are harder to see. A few bright orange-appearing red [...]
NASA astronaut Anne McClain smiles and high fives SpaceX employees
jsc2025e011329 (Feb. 24, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission Anne McClain smiles and high fives SpaceX employees during a sendoff at the company’s facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
Light Pillar over Erupting Etna
Photo of the Day Can a lava flow extend into the sky? No, but light from the lava flow can. One effect is something quite unusual -- a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused by sunlight and so appear as a bright column that extends upward above a rising or setting [...]
Saturn in Infrared from Cassini
Photo of the Day Saturn looks slightly different in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not [...]
Roadmapping a Career in Science Policy from College: Interview with Marli Bain
Learn more about the ways Public Policy Affinity Group member Marli Bain is planning her journey to success by bridging engineering and policy, and learn how you can get more involved with science policy at your college or through the SWE Public Policy AG. Source
The Anticipated Impacts of DEI Program and Policy Rollbacks
As part of its spotlight month, the African American Affinity Group explores how Black women engineers may face greater challenges in the future labor force. Source
My Experience as a SWE Leader
Read all about Odegua Florence Ogunbor’s incredible journey, from joining SWE as a graduate member to starting the first SWE Affiliate in Nigeria. Source
HH 30: A Star System with Planets Now Forming
Photo of the Day How do stars and planets form? New clues have been found in the protoplanetary system Herbig-Haro 30 by the James Webb Space Telescope in concert with Hubble and the Earth-bound ALMA. The observations show, among other things, that large dust grains are more concentrated into a central disk where they [...]