Breaking Down Barriers: SWE Senate Subteam Identifies and Addresses Systemic Structures
Dive into the research around how SWE can address systemic barriers experienced by women in STEM, conducted by a subteam of the FY24 SWE Senate. Source
Black Hole Accreting with Jet
Photo of the Day What happens when a black hole devours a star? Many details remain unknown, but observations are providing new clues. In 2014, a powerful explosion was recorded by the ground-based robotic telescopes of the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (Project ASAS-SN), with followed-up observations by instruments including NASA's Earth-orbiting Swift [...]
SWE Senate Year-End Update
Speaker of the Senate Kristine Barnes (she/her) shares a recap of the SWE Senate’s important work and achievements throughout FY24. Source
A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring
Photo of the Day This is how the Sun disappeared from the daytime sky last month. The featured time-lapse video was created from stills taken from Mountain View, Arkansas, USA on 2024 April 8. First, a small sliver of a normally spotted Sun went strangely dark. Within a few minutes, much of the background [...]
A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star
Photo of the Day What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole, then the star falls in completely -- and everything vanishes. More likely, though, the star goes close enough to have the black hole's gravity pull away its outer layers, or [...]
Transition Tips into College for International Students in the United States
As an international student, you can use these tips from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) to make your college transition easier. Source
SWE Asia-Pacific’s “Fostering Impactful Leadership for an Inclusive World for Women” Webinar
Learn about the first-ever inclusive collaboration among Asia-Pacific SWE Affiliates! Source
Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b
Photo of the Day A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every 0.8 Earth days. That puts it about 2 million kilometers (less than 1/25th the orbital distance of Mercury) from a small, cool sun. Still, on a dayside always facing its parent star, temperatures [...]
Women in Data Science: Empowering Innovation
Jayashree Raja outlines the impact of women in data science and highlights several key trailblazers in the field. Source
M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
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 [...]