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SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 264: Advancing STEM Diversity in Costa Rica With Blanca Rosa Navarro Piedra

By |2024-06-11T10:08:00-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Learn about Blanca Rosa Navarro Piedra's work to advance women engineers in Costa Rica on this podcast episode! Source

Colorful Stars and Clouds near Rho Ophiuchi

By |2024-06-11T09:09:44-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so colorful, yet dusty? The colors result from a mixture of objects and processes. Fine dust -- illuminated by starlight -- produces blue reflection nebulae. Gaseous clouds whose atoms are excited by ultraviolet starlight produce reddish emission nebulae. Backlit dust clouds [...]

Sh2-132: The Lion Nebula

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

Photo of the Day Is the Lion Nebula the real ruler of the constellation Cepheus? This powerful feline appearing nebula is powered by two massive stars, each with a mass over 20 times greater than our Sun. Formed from shells of ionized gas that have expanded, the nebula's energetic matter not only glows, but [...]

How to Identify that Light in the Sky

By |2024-06-09T09:09:10-04:00June 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What is that light in the sky? The answer to one of humanity's more common questions may emerge from a few quick observations. For example -- is it moving or blinking? If so, and if you live near a city, the answer is typically an airplane, since planes are so [...]

SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula

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

Photo of the Day Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,000 light-years away toward the well-trained constellation Canis Major and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 263: How to Create a Moms Group in Your Organization With Heather Ulrich of Caterpillar

By |2024-06-05T09:47:00-04:00June 5th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Find out how engineer Heather Ulrich started a group at Caterpillar to support working moms on this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

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