Photo of the Day What created this unusual planetary nebula? Dubbed the Pillow Nebula and the Flying Carpet Nebula, NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of [...]
Photo of the Day The diffuse hydrogen-alpha glow of emission region Sh2-27 fills this cosmic scene. The field of view spans nearly 3 degrees across the nebula-rich constellation Ophiuchus toward the central Milky Way. A Dark Veil of wispy interstellar dust clouds draped across the foreground is chiefly identified as LDN 234 and LDN [...]
Middle school students showcased their coding skills and creativity using the engaging “Mission Outer Space!” theme. Source
Learn how starting up an international club in Brazil has been a transformative experience for Isabella. Source
Haneyya from Pakistan shares how to stay connected with SWE and build community, no matter your location. Source
Celebrate the 2025 SWE awards recipients who are driving innovation and championing women in engineering! Source
Photo of the Day That yellow spot -- what is it? It's a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, some 4.5 billion years ago. Although we can't look into the past and [...]
Kathleen Grover shares what it was like to interview, secure a role, and transition back to the STEM workforce. Plus, learn about SWE’s reentry resources for engineers. Source
Have you heard the news? The wildly popular hands-on technical workshop sessions are returning to a WE Local conference near you! Have an idea for a technical workshop? We want to hear from you. Source
Photo of the Day Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with [...]
