SWE Celebrates National Arab American Heritage Month
Browse through our curated list of podcast episodes, blog posts, and magazine articles highlighting the Arab American community. Source
From Conference to Career: One SWE Member’s Journey
How Mackenzie Tobertga turned her WE conference experience into a career opportunity. Source
The Claw and Bubble Nebulae
Photo of the Day What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting, with large swaths of color strewn across a cosmic canvas seemingly without design. Despite the image's abstract nature, the human mind finds patterns, identifying a large claw reaching up towards [...]
Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A
Photo of the Day What's happened to the center of this galaxy? Dramatic dust lanes run across the center of unusual elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. These dust lanes are so thick they almost completely obscure the galaxy's center in visible light. This is particularly unusual as Cen A's older stars and oval shape are [...]
From Engineer to Ecosystem Builder: Advancing Women in STEM Beyond Borders
Global Women Engineers Affinity Group member Abosede Adewole reflects on supporting engineers across borders. Source
Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting
Photo of the Day What is the sound of two black holes merging in deep space? Sound waves don't propagate in vacuum, but gravitational waves do. In 2015 we were able to "hear" them for the first time and confirm one of Albert Einstein's theoretical predictions. Each square on the grid of the featured [...]
The Guardians of Rapa Nui beneath the Milky Way
Photo of the Day In the words of today's astrophotographer, Rositsa Dimitrova, "What have these silent sentinels watched pass across the sky?" The volcanic mo'ai (meaning statue) of Ahu Tongariki stand guard over Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island), a Polynesian island (annexed by Chile in 1888) located thousands of kilometers off the [...]
Light Pillars and Orion over Mohe
Photo of the Day What's happening at the end of that street? Pictured here are not auroras but light pillars, a phenomenon typically much closer. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals [...]
Galaxies in the River: NGC 1300 and NGC 1297
Photo of the Day Spiral NGC 1300 and elliptical NGC 1297 are galaxies that lie on the banks of the southern constellation Eridanus (The River). At 70 million light-years distant or more, both are members of the Eridanus Galaxy Cluster. About 100,000 light-years across, at lower left in this sharp, galaxy group photo NGC [...]
Spring Equinox at Teide Observatory
Photo of the Day The defining astronomical moment of the equinox today is at 14:46 UTC (March 20). That's when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving north in its yearly journey through planet Earth's sky, marking the beginning of spring for our fair planet in the northern hemisphere and fall in the southern [...]