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Milky Way over Easter Island

By |2024-11-05T08:09:20-05:00November 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 900 large stone statues called moais exist there. The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moais stand, on average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. [...]

M42: The Great Nebula in Orion

By |2024-11-04T08:09:14-05:00November 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission [...]

Virginia State University SWE: Supporting Collegians in STEM Fields

By |2024-11-01T11:43:00-04:00November 1st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Alicia Williamson, president of the Virginia State University SWE Affiliate, shares the innovative academic, social, and career readiness activities that VSU SWE has held on campus.

Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula

By |2024-10-31T09:09:08-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day By starlight, this eerie visage shines in the dark with a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression that a witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel. More formally known as IC 2118, the [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 285: Thriving in Engineering While Living With Disabilities

By |2024-10-29T10:16:00-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Members of the SWE DisAbility Inclusion Affinity Group share their stories of self-advocacy, thoughts on disclosing disabilities at work, and recommended disability inclusion resources for engineers.

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