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Belonging, Amplified: Where SWE and DEIB Partner Societies Intersect Through Joint Membership

By |2025-07-02T10:17:00-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Discover how SWE’s joint membership program connects members with DEIB-focused professional societies. Source

Dark Sand Cascades on Mars

By |2025-06-29T12:44:24-04:00June 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the [...]

Rubin’s First Look: A Sagittarius Skyscape

By |2025-06-25T12:44:32-04:00June 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This interstellar skyscape spans over 4 degrees across crowded starfields toward the constellation Sagittarius and the central Milky Way. A First Look image captured at the new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the bright nebulae and star clusters featured include famous stops on telescopic tours of the cosmos: Messier 8 [...]

In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M61

By |2025-06-24T12:44:26-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Is there a spiral galaxy in the center of this spiral galaxy? Sort of. Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and smaller telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this detailed portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61) and its bright center. A mere [...]

W5: Pillars of Star Formation

By |2025-06-23T12:44:35-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely [...]

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