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SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 270: Negotiation Strategies for Women in STEM With Selena Rezvani

By |2024-07-23T10:30:00-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Author and speaker Selena Rezvani shares actionable tips to help women engineers improve their negotiation skills in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source

The Crab Nebula from Visible to X-Ray

By |2024-07-23T09:09:08-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What powers the Crab Nebula? A city-sized magnetized neutron star spinning around 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 10 light-years across, the spectacular picture of the Crab Nebula (M1) frames [...]

King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way

By |2024-07-21T09:09:15-04:00July 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This rock structure is not only surreal -- it's real. Perhaps the reason it's not more famous is that it is smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs only a few meters. Even so, the King of Wings outcrop, located in New Mexico, USA, is a fascinating example [...]

Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival

By |2024-07-19T09:09:12-04:00July 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day For some, these subtle bands of light and shadow stretched across the sky as the Sun set on July 11. Known as anticrepuscular rays, the bands are formed as a large cloud bank near the western horizon cast long shadows through the atmosphere at sunset. Due to the camera's perspective, [...]

Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky

By |2024-07-17T09:09:10-04:00July 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day When Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, swings his blacksmith's hammer, the sky is lit on fire. A recent eruption of Chile's Villarrica volcano shows the delicate interplay between this fire -- actually glowing steam and ash from melted rock -- and the light from distant stars in our Milky [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 269: Building Legacies, Changing Lives: Donor Perspectives on SWE’s Endowed Scholarship Program

By |2024-07-16T09:48:00-04:00July 16th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Hear the stories of how endowed scholarships leave a legacy for generations to come on this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble

By |2024-07-15T09:09:08-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million light-years distant toward the northern [...]

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Resource Reel – June 2024

By |2024-07-08T17:09:27-04:00July 8th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from fall 2023 through early 2024. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III and the first flights of SLS in [...]

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