2025 SWE Awards Honor Outstanding Engineers and STEM Leaders
Celebrate the 2025 SWE awards recipients who are driving innovation and championing women in engineering! Source
WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
Photo of the Day That yellow spot -- what is it? It's a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, some 4.5 billion years ago. Although we can't look into the past and [...]
How Engineer Kathleen Grover Returned to Work After an Eight-Year Career Break
Kathleen Grover shares what it was like to interview, secure a role, and transition back to the STEM workforce. Plus, learn about SWE’s reentry resources for engineers. Source
Hands-On Technical Workshops Return to 2026 North American WE Locals
Have you heard the news? The wildly popular hands-on technical workshop sessions are returning to a WE Local conference near you! Have an idea for a technical workshop? We want to hear from you. Source
The Meteor and the Star Cluster
Photo of the Day Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with [...]
The Spinning Pulsar of the Crab Nebula
Photo of the Day At the core of the Crab Nebula lies a city-sized, magnetized neutron star spinning 30 times a second. Known as the Crab Pulsar, it is the bright spot in the center of the gaseous swirl at the nebula's core. About twelve light-years across, the spectacular picture frames the glowing gas, [...]
A Tale of Two Nebulae
Photo of the Day This colorful telescopic view towards the musical northern constellation Lyra reveals the faint outer halos and brighter central ring-shaped region of M57, popularly known as the Ring Nebula. To modern astronomers M57 is a well-known planetary nebula. With a central ring about one light-year across, M57 is definitely not a [...]
Final Piece of Rocket Hardware for Artemis II Heads to Florida
These images and video show the Orion stage adapter for Artemis II leaving NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as it begins its journey to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Manufactured at Marshall, this adapter for the SLS (Space Launch System) connects the rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage to the Orion spacecraft [...]
Perseid Meteors from Durdle Door
Photo of the Day What are those curved arcs in the sky? Meteors -- specifically, meteors from this year's Perseid meteor shower. Over the past few weeks, after the sky darkened, many images of Perseid meteors were captured separately and merged into a single frame, taken earlier. Although the meteors all traveled on straight [...]
NGC 1309: A Useful Spiral Galaxy
Photo of the Day This galaxy is not only pretty -- it's useful. A gorgeous spiral some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1309 spans about 30,000 light-years, making it about one third the size of our larger Milky Way galaxy. Bluish [...]