Affinity Group Spotlight: HeForSWE FY25 Leadership
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
Views of Starship Flight 6 from International Space Station
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 [...]
Celebrating SWE’s 2024 APEX Award Winners
Hear from some of the 2024 APEX Award recipients speaking about their career milestones and learning lessons. Source
Money Matters: Empowering Financial Fearlessness Among SWE-sters
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
SWENext Influencers: Meet Monica H.
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
SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 291: Supporting Postpartum Engineers in the Workplace With Megan Casey
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
Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
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 [...]
NGC 300: A Galaxy of Stars
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 [...]
Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe
Photo of the Day What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer, depicted here, is a conditionally perceived shade of beige. In computer [...]
Winter and Summer on a Little Planet
Photo of the Day Winter and summer appear to come on a single night to this stunning little planet. It's planet Earth of course. The digitally mapped, nadir centered panorama covers 360x180 degrees and is composed of frames recorded during January and July from the Col du Galibier in the French Alps. Stars and [...]