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SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 260: The SWE Collegiate Experience With Vidhya Thiyagarajan

By |2024-05-14T09:58:00-04:00May 14th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Vidhya Thiyagarajan shares about her SWE collegiate experience and reflects on what it was like to start a SWENext Club at her high school in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

AR 3664 on a Setting Sun

By |2024-05-13T09:09:10-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day It was larger than the Earth. It was so big you could actually see it on the Sun's surface without magnification. It contained powerful and tangled magnetic fields as well as numerous dark sunspots. Labelled AR 3664, it developed into one of the most energetic areas seen on the Sun [...]

Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge

By |2024-05-10T09:09:33-04:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Relax and watch two black holes merge. Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, this simulation plays in slow motion but would take about one third of a second if run in real time. Set on a cosmic stage, the black holes are posed in front [...]

The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole

By |2024-05-09T09:09:42-04:00May 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is rendered in blue hues in this [...]

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