These photos and videos show how crews guided a test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to Building 4619 at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 22. Built by Leidos, the lead contractor for the universal stage adapter, crews [...]
Photo of the Day Framed in this single, starry, telescopic field of view are two open star clusters, M35 and NGC 2158. Located within the boundaries of the constellation Gemini, they do appear to be side by side. Its stars concentrated toward the upper right, M35 is relatively nearby, though. M35 (also cataloged as [...]
Get to know SWE’s African American Affinity Group co-leads and their plans for the community this year. Source
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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
