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Arp 142: Interacting Galaxies from Webb

By |2024-07-30T09:09:25-04:00July 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of two big galaxies interacting. Just a few hundred million years ago, the upper NGC 2936 was likely a normal spiral galaxy: spinning, creating stars, and minding its own business. Then [...]

Saturn at the Moon’s Edge

By |2024-07-27T09:09:06-04:00July 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky. On July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close on the sky, to a waning gibbous Moon. But from some locations on planet Earth the ringed gas giant was occulted, disappearing behind the Moon for about an hour from [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 270: Negotiation Strategies for Women in STEM With Selena Rezvani

By |2024-07-23T10:30:00-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Author and speaker Selena Rezvani shares actionable tips to help women engineers improve their negotiation skills in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source

The Crab Nebula from Visible to X-Ray

By |2024-07-23T09:09:08-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What powers the Crab Nebula? A city-sized magnetized neutron star spinning around 30 times a second. Known as the Crab Pulsar, it is the bright spot in the center of the gaseous swirl at the nebula's core. About 10 light-years across, the spectacular picture of the Crab Nebula (M1) frames [...]

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