Photo of the Day Are Saturn's auroras like Earth's? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft monitored Saturn's North Pole simultaneously during Cassini's final orbits around the gas giant in September 2017. During this time, Saturn's tilt caused its North Pole to be clearly visible from Earth. The [...]
Photo of the Day Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory’s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth's annual Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest multi-purpose Schmidt telescope in [...]
Each month, SWE spotlights one of our 22 Affinity Groups (AGs). As part of their spotlight month, the HeForSWE AG shares their leadership and goals. Source
While orbiting approximately 250 miles above Earth, external cameras aboard the International Space Station captured the sixth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship after liftoff at 4 pm CST on Tuesday, November 19. For Artemis III, the first crewed return to the Moon in over 50 years, NASA is working with SpaceX to develop Starship as [...]
Hear from some of the 2024 APEX Award recipients speaking about their career milestones and learning lessons. Source
SWE members Kayli Battel, Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Kiran Malik, and Sai Naveena share advice on financial fearlessness, based on their popular talk at WE24. Source
Find out how Monica, a SWENext Influencer based in South Korea, is blending her passions for STEM and mental health to help teen girls heal their negative body image. Source
Explore how STEM leaders can foster an inclusive environment for birthing parents, plus self-advocacy tips in the postpartum period, in this new episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source
Photo of the Day If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? You might look out over a vast orange landscape covered with rocks under a dusty orange sky, with a blue-tinted Sun setting over the horizon, and odd-shaped water clouds hovering high overhead. This was just the view captured last [...]
Photo of the Day This galaxy is unusual for how many stars it seems that you can see. Stars are so abundantly evident in this deep exposure of the spiral galaxy NGC 300 because so many of these stars are bright blue and grouped into resolvable bright star clusters. Additionally, NGC 300 is so [...]
