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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2006



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Title Date
Do Look Back Aurorae X-rays Seen by Chandra January 2, 2006
A COUP for Chandra Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project January 9, 2006
Spinning Aluminum INTEGRAL Detects Rotating Aluminum 26 January 16, 2006
Happy Birthday RXTE RXTE 10th Anniversary Montage January 23, 2006
Head over Wheel Cartwheel Galaxy Composite January 30, 2006
Taking Perseus' Temperature Chandra Temperature Map of the Perseus Cluster February 6, 2006
Falling In Chandra image of halo around NGC 5746 February 13, 2006
Getting Together While Young XMM-Newton and VLT images of XMMU J2235.3-2557 February 20, 2006
Interstellar Explosion Erosion Chandra and ROSAT observations of Puppis A February 27, 2006
Oddball GRB Swift Oddball GRB March 6, 2006
The Medium is a Message XMM-Newton and R-band images of Stephan's Quintet March 13, 2006
The Hole Earth Earth viewed by INTEGRAL March 20, 2006
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
Binary Black Hole Contrails Chandra X-ray and VLA radio image of Abell 400 April 10, 2006
Stirring the Drink Chandra images of elliptical galaxies April 17, 2006
Shaking the Foundations Simulation of gravitational radiation from merging black holes April 24, 2006
Fuel Efficiency Standards Chandra images of elliptical galaxies May 1, 2006
House of Mirrors Subaru and XMM images of gravitation lens SDSS J1004+4112 May 8, 2006
Last Gasp of the Dying Composite images of Planetary Nebulae May 15, 2006
A Swift Comet Swift Comet May 22, 2006
Could this be Magic? Magic observations of LS I +61 303 May 29, 2006
Runaway Corpse Composite image of IC 443 June 5, 2006
Abundance XMM-Newton X-ray data on cluster abundances June 12, 2006
Heart of Andromeda Chandra images of elliptical galaxies June 19, 2006
How Goes the Flow? Chandra spectrum of GRO J1655-40 June 26, 2006
Wobble of the Dead XMM Newton image of wobbly neutron star July 3, 2006
Goal XMM Newton image of SNR RCW103 July 10, 2006
Great Balls of Low Metallicity Fire Chandra montage of LMC supernova remnants July 17, 2006
The Blast Fades RXTE spectra of RS Oph outburst July 24, 2006
A History of Violence Chandra images Galactic Center July 31, 2006
Shrapnel XMM Image of psr B1929+10 August 7, 2006
Ridge of Iron RXTE Galactic Ridge August 14, 2006
Pull of Gravity XMM-Newton X-ray image of Abell 3266 August 21, 2006
Darkness into Light Dark and Normal Matter split August 28, 2006
Jupiter in X-rays Jupiter in X-rays September 4, 2006
Gamma Cas A INTEGRAL observation of Cas A September 11, 2006
A History of Looking Backward A History of redshift September 18, 2006
Heart of Globulars XMM Images of globulars September 25, 2006
Wild Hearts of the Young Chandra, IR and optical composite of NGC 3576 October 2, 2006
Roar Chandra Low energy image of M87 October 9, 2006
Slew View rosat and xmm slew survey view of the Vela SNR October 16, 2006
Spikes RGS Spectrum of AB Dor October 23, 2006
Great Jupiter's Ghost XMM and Hubble view of NGC 3242 October 30, 2006
Feasting and Burping Active galaxy in the MS 0735.6+7421 cluster November 6, 2006
Neighbor Killer Swift lightcurve or readers November 13, 2006
Accel-a-Rama Chandra acceleration map of Cas A November 20, 2006
Speeding Bullet XMM-Newton image of Abell 3376 November 27, 2006
New X-ray New Star INTEGRAL image of new X-ray nova December 4, 2006
Was Kilroy Here? X-ray image of 2 nearly simultaneous supernovae December 11, 2006
LAT and GLAST - Together at Last GLAST and LAT Integration December 18, 2007
The Sun on October 28 Hinode XRT image of the sun December 25, 2006


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