Photo of the Day A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every 0.8 Earth days. That puts it about 2 million kilometers (less than 1/25th the orbital distance of Mercury) from a small, cool sun. Still, on a dayside always facing its parent star, temperatures [...]
Jayashree Raja outlines the impact of women in data science and highlights several key trailblazers in the field. Source
Photo of the Day Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of over 100 billion stars has well-defined spiral arms, similar to our own Milky Way. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100, also known as NGC [...]
Come along for Eshika Mahajan’s journey at the 2024 WE Local Bengaluru conference and celebrate the quiet strength and subtle influence of introverts making a difference. Source
This May, explore a variety of podcast episodes, blog posts, and magazine articles that honor STEM leaders within the Asian and Pacific American communities. Source
Mrinal Karvir discusses the different types of bias that exist in AI, as well as how engineers can help reduce bias in this technology, in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source
Photo of the Day The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years distant, Nova Persei 1901 (GK Persei) was the second closest nova yet recorded. At the very center is a white dwarf star, the surviving core of a former [...]
Photo of the Day The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much [...]
Photo of the Day In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning star that is known to [...]
Hear the stories of three Arab women engineers who are making an impact in STEM around the world. Source
