Photo of the Day One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. In 2011, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressively large prominence erupting from the surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the featured time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame was [...]
Celebrate the contributions and achievements of the 2024 Society of Women Engineers award recipients! Source
Learn more about two members of SWE's Women in Government Affinity Group who have expanded the AG's footprint globally. Source
Photo of the Day This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Therefore, meteors streaked across the dark night as small bits cast off from Comet Swift-Tuttle came crashing into the Earth's atmosphere. [...]
Sharon Hong of Motorola Solutions gives a preview of her WE24 keynote address and shares how engineers can unleash their potential in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source
Photo of the Day What's that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth's edge: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears on the left of the featured image in red and blue. Giant [...]
Photo of the Day Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection [...]
In this video and transcript, NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Suni Williams discuss their life and work during an in-flight interview with two leaders from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Source
Each month throughout the year, we spotlight a SWE Affinity Group. Learn more about the Women in Government Affinity Group's activities in the past fiscal year. Source
Photo of the Day To some, they look like battlements, here protecting us against the center of the Milky Way. The Three Merlons, also called the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, stand tall today because they are made of dense dolomite rock which has better resisted erosion than surrounding softer rock. They formed about 250 [...]
