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M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy

By |2024-05-02T09:09:06-04:00May 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of over 100 billion stars has well-defined spiral arms, similar to our own Milky Way. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100, also known as NGC [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 258: Exploring Bias in AI With Mrinal Karvir of Intel

By |2024-04-30T10:12:00-04:00April 30th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Mrinal Karvir discusses the different types of bias that exist in AI, as well as how engineers can help reduce bias in this technology, in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula

By |2024-04-30T09:09:11-04:00April 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years distant, Nova Persei 1901 (GK Persei) was the second closest nova yet recorded. At the very center is a white dwarf star, the surviving core of a former [...]

Rings Around the Ring Nebula

By |2024-04-28T09:09:13-04:00April 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much [...]

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy

By |2024-04-26T09:09:16-04:00April 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning star that is known to [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 257: How Hobbies Elevate Your Professional Potential With Nichole Elff of Boston Scientific

By |2024-04-24T10:03:00-04:00April 24th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Nichole Elff shares her journey in drag racing and discusses how engineers can embrace the power of their hobbies on this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source

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