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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 [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 267: Where STEM Meets Film: Bringing Engineering to the Screen

By |2024-07-08T16:29:00-04:00July 8th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Hear from two women engineers who were featured in the IMAX film "Cities of the Future" in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

Empowering Innovation: How Dover Cultivates an Inclusive Culture and Champions Women Engineers

By |2024-07-08T09:33:00-04:00July 8th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Two women engineers share what they enjoy about working at Dover, including the company’s emphasis on career growth and support for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Source

M83: Star Streams and a Thousand Rubies

By |2024-07-03T09:09:07-04:00July 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. About 40,000 light-years across, M83 is known as the Southern Pinwheel for its pronounced spiral arms. But the wealth of reddish star forming regions found near [...]

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