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HEASARC Picture of the Week: Active Galaxies



Title Date
High Resolution X-ray Map of the Active Galaxy Centaurus A HRI Cen A Nov 8, 1999
Five Billion Year Old, 50 Million Degree Clouds 3C295/CHANDRA Jan 24, 2000
A Daily Intake of Iron MCG6 Fe line August 7, 2000
A Jet in the Distant Past PKS O637-752 October 16, 2000
On the trail of a Cosmic Jet Chandra/3C273 November 20, 2000
The Oldest X-rays Ever QSO at Z=5.8 December 11, 2000
Through an X-ray Lens Brightly Chandra gravitational lens December 18, 2000
X-raying the Warm Absorber XMM/RGS spectrum January 1, 2001
Multi-component Starburst XMM/NGC253 February 19, 2001
Climbing out of a Black Hole? XMM/MCG-6-30-15 October 29, 2001
Ins and Outs of Black Holes Chandra/PKS 1127-145 February 11, 2002
The Universe Gets Slightly Less Interesting Chandra Twin Quasar Image June 24, 2002
The Edge at the Edge of the Universe Iron Edge in Quasar Spectrum July 22, 2002
The Tell-Tale Arc Cen A/HRC August 12, 2002
A Black Hole Unveiled Chandra/Type 2 quasar August 19, 2002
Surprisingly Active Galaxies Chandra image of Abell 2104 September 16, 2002
Multi-color Cluster M87 CHANDRA IMAGE November 4, 2002
A Smoking Gun XMM-Newton Image of a Jet from Pictor A March 10, 2003
Cosmic Super Collider Radio/X-ray image of Cen A Jet April 28, 2003
All You Can't Eat Keck and Chandra views of 4C41.17 May 26, 2003
The Star-AGN Connection SPI Al 26 Map August 11, 2003
Prehistoric Jet Quasar X-ray Jet November 10, 2003
Living and Dying Color X-ray and UV image of M81 December 8, 2003
Jet Exhausted XMM and X-ray image of 3C66b April 5, 2004
Splitting Images Chandra Image of the Cloverleaf quasar April 26, 2004
Three Ring Virgo Chandra image of Rings around M87 May 17, 2004
Energizing the Base 3c223 XMM & VLA images November 1, 2004
Black Hole Too Young? Chandra observation of J1306+illustration December 6, 2004
Ring-Around Not-so-Rosy XMM observation of flare around a black hole February 14, 2004
The Growing Years Merging Galaxies in the CDFN April 11, 2004
You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio Galaxy Chandra Image of 4C37.43 March 27, 2006
Rogues Gallery of Loudmouths XMM Montage of Gamma-ray loud active galaxies April 3, 2006
Roar Chandra Low energy image of M87 October 9, 2006
Feasting and Burping Active galaxy in the MS 0735.6+7421 cluster November 6, 2006
A Sky Full of Holes Chandra Bootes Field March 19, 2007
Eclipse of the Dark Heart Chandra/VLT images of NGC 1365 April 16, 2007
Jet Exhaust NGC 4285 composite image April 30, 2007
Growing Trouble Chandra images of AGN in galaxy clusters July 30, 2007
Far and Away INTEGRAL/Swift detection of distant AGN November 12, 2007
Intergalactic Battle 3C321 jet hitting neighbor galaxy December 24, 2007
Jet Power Composite of Cen A March 17, 2008
No Static at All FRI Galaxies in X-ray and radio September 15, 2008
Sparks after the Collision Chandra image of jet from Cen A February 16, 2009
A Cry from Long Ago Chandra, MERLIN and SDSS composite of HDF 130 June 1, 2009
Faster than a Speeding Photon? XMM-Newton image of M87 jets June 15, 2009
Speed Gun Chandra, HST and VLA images of M87 jet July 6, 2009
Cavities with Iron Fillings Chandra image of Hydra galaxy cluster September 21, 2009
Blazing Brightest ever Gamma-ray blazar December 14, 2009
Togetherness X-ray and optical image of a quasar-quasar collision February 15, 2010
Blowback X-ray, optical and radio composite image of NGC 1068 March 8, 2010
Boosting the Background Composite image of Cen A April 5, 2010
Turned on By the Bump BAT detected AGN May 31, 2010
The Extremely High Energy Extragalactic Sky Number of very high energy extragalactic sources vs. time August 30, 2010
Growing Black Holes composite X-ray and optical images of galaxies used in a recent study of supermassive black holes January 3, 2011
Go Jets composite X-ray and radio images study of the jet in Cen A. January 17, 2011
Parsing the Background makeup of the CXB January 31, 2011
Double Super X-ray and optical image of NGC 3393 September 5, 2011
Black Hole Burps Multiwavelength Campaign of Observations of the AGN MRK 509 October 10, 2011
UFOs from AGN Artist Rendition of an ultra-fast outflow near an AGN March 5, 2012
What Cen A Ate Herschel IR and XMM X-ray image of Centaurus A April 16, 2012
Echolocating a Black Hole Artist view of active nucleus of NGC 4151 with solar system orbits for scale June 4, 2012
Giant Jet Composite image of the most distant X-ray jet known December 3, 2012


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