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International Space Station Crosses the Sun

By |2025-05-21T09:09:10-04:00May 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen as a bright spot about once a month from many locations. The ISS is then visible only just after sunset or [...]

How Pamela Cosman Built a Fulfilling Career in Engineering, Academia, and Children’s Books

By |2025-05-19T09:57:00-04:00May 19th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Distinguished professor Pamela Cosman, Ph.D., proves that engineering can be a path to creativity, confidence, and making a difference — both in the lab and on the page. Source

Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

By |2025-05-17T09:09:12-04:00May 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across [...]

NGC 1360: The Robin’s Egg Nebula

By |2025-05-14T09:09:05-04:00May 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This pretty nebula lies some 1,500 light-years away, its shape and color in this telescopic view reminiscent of a robin's egg. The cosmic cloud spans about 3 light-years, nestled securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation of the Furnace (Fornax). Recognized as a planetary nebula, egg-shaped NGC 1360 doesn't [...]

Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy

By |2025-05-13T09:09:06-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the top? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration shows that [...]

Big Wins and Bigger Heart: Highlights from the PCES Outreach Challenge #1

By |2025-05-12T12:26:00-04:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE Global Ambassador Kannagi Kumari shares the results of this exciting outreach challenge, including a Python workshop and a team that generously shared their prize. Source

Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy

By |2025-05-12T09:09:11-04:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the side? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration shows that [...]

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