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Ring of Fire over Easter Island

By |2024-10-11T09:09:21-04:00October 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of South America, and then [...]

Five Bright Comets from SOHO

By |2024-10-10T09:09:19-04:00October 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Arranged chronologically all are recognizable by their tails streaming away from the Sun at the center of each field of view, where a direct view of the overwhelmingly bright Sun is [...]

M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center

By |2024-10-09T09:09:09-04:00October 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image taken from the Kuwaiti desert. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio [...]

An Autistic Woman’s Guide to Asking for Help: Self-advocacy in the Workplace When Living With a Non-visible Disability

By |2024-10-08T13:41:00-04:00October 8th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

As part of the DisAbility Affinity Group's spotlight month, Trisha Matthews, the AG's professional development chair, reflects on her experience advocating for herself as a woman engineer with autism.

The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

By |2024-10-07T09:09:06-04:00October 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day A bright comet is moving into the evening skies. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has brightened and even though it is now easily visible to the unaided eye, it is so near to the Sun that it is still difficult to see. Pictured, Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS was captured just before sunrise from an [...]

The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

By |2024-10-06T09:09:14-04:00October 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, grew a spectacularly long and filamentary tail. The magnificent tail spread across the sky and was visible for several days to Southern Hemisphere observers just after sunset. The amazing ion tail showed its greatest extent on long-duration, wide-angle camera exposures. During some times, [...]

SWE’s DisAbility Inclusion AG Celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month

By |2024-10-03T11:59:00-04:00October 3rd, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Learn more about NDEAM, its impact, and ways you can be an ally as part of the DisAbility Inclusion AG's spotlight month.

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