Photo of the Day What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Perseverance rover exploring Mars. Perseverance has been examining the Red Planet since 2021, finding evidence of its complex history of volcanism and ancient flowing water, and sending breathtaking images across the inner Solar [...]
Photo of the Day Why does Comet Pons-Brooks now have tails pointing in opposite directions? The most spectacular tail is the blue-glowing ion tail that is visible flowing down the image. The ion tail is pushed directly out from the Sun by the solar wind. On the upper right is the glowing central coma [...]
Photo of the Day Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized hydrogen and oxygen gas. Embedded in the region's [...]
As part of the Asian Connections Affinity Group's spotlight month, Hang Loi explores the perils of harmful stereotypes on AAPI and suggests ways to move forward to unleash this community’s potentials. Source
Join SWE in celebrating Pride Month with these resources that uplift LGBTQ+ voices. Source
Photo of the Day Why does a cloudy moon sometimes appear colorful? The effect, called a lunar corona, is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly-transparent cloud. Since light of different colors has different wavelengths, each color diffracts differently. Lunar coronae are one [...]
Learn about the speakers, activities, and networking that inspired over 80 women in STEM. Source
Photo of the Day What happens if you ascend this stairway to the Milky Way? Before answering that, let's understand the beautiful sky you will see. Most eye-catching is the grand arch of the Milky Way Galaxy, the band that is the central disk of our galaxy which is straight but distorted by the [...]
Learn about the longstanding partnership between SWE and FIRST, plus discover how several SWENext teams thrived at the 2024 FIRST Championship in Houston. Source
Prachi Tomar shares advice on pivoting into software engineering, plus reflections on the future of AI, on this podcast episode! Source
