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The Rosette Nebula from DECam

By |2025-07-16T13:44:28-04:00July 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Would the Rosette Nebula by any other name look as sweet? The bland New General Catalog designation of NGC 2237 doesn't appear to diminish the appearance of this flowery emission nebula, as captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American [...]

Collapse in Hebes Chasma on Mars

By |2025-07-15T13:44:24-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happened in Hebes Chasma on Mars? Hebes Chasma is a depression just north of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon. Since the depression is unconnected to other surface features, it is unclear where the internal material went. Inside Hebes Chasma is Hebes Mensa, a 5 kilometer high mesa that appears [...]

Congratulations to Rita Munarwi, This Quarter’s SWE Advance Power User!

By |2025-07-15T12:41:00-04:00July 15th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE is excited to announce Rita Munarwi as this quarter’s Advance Power User! We asked Munarwi some questions regarding her dedication to lifelong learning and how she uses the Advance Learning Center to achieve her goals. Source

Gender Reservation in Indian Engineering Education: Policies, Progress, and Perspectives

By |2025-07-14T13:42:00-04:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Swastika Chatterjee-Das shares data and reflections on how gender-based quotas are shaping engineering education and industry outcomes in India. Source

Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula

By |2025-07-13T13:44:31-04:00July 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per [...]

Clouds and the Golden Moon

By |2025-07-12T13:44:25-04:00July 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from Conceição do Coité, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures [...]

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