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The Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy

By |2024-10-02T09:09:06-04:00October 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It is the largest satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way Galaxy. If you live in the south, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is quite noticeable, spanning about 10 degrees across the night sky, which is 20 times larger than the full moon towards the southern constellation of the dolphinfish [...]

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 SWE Scholarship Recipients!

By |2024-10-01T11:45:00-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE is proud to award 328 scholarships, totaling nearly $1.5 million, to undergraduate and graduate engineering students for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year marks a special milestone as SWE celebrates 65 years of its scholarship program.

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 281: Engineered by Women With Catherine Hunt Ryan of Bechtel

By |2024-10-01T09:58:00-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Catherine Hunt Ryan, president of Bechtel’s Manufacturing and Technology business, previews her WE24 keynote and discusses the pivotal role women play in infrastructure projects in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast.

Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets

By |2024-10-01T09:09:08-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How far can black hole jets extend? A new record was found just recently with the discovery of a 23-million light-year long jet pair from a black hole active billions of years ago. Dubbed Porphyrion for a mythological Greek giant, the impressive jets were created by a type of black [...]

Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

By |2024-09-27T09:09:17-04:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic [...]

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