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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2009



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Title Date
Born Again X-ray (Chandra) and optical composite of the Black Widow Pulsar January 5, 2009
Cas A in 4-D X-ray movie stills of Cas A January 12, 2009
Spinning Repeater XMM-Newton image of SGR 1627-41 January 19, 2009
CREAM over Ice CREAM instrument, 4th launch January 26, 2009
Evacuation Route Chandra, HST image of NGC 604 February 2, 2009
Bright Gamma Sky Release of Fermi/LAT Bright source list February 9, 2009
Sparks after the Collision Chandra image of jet from Cen A February 16, 2009
The Extremest Extreme burst detected by Fermi, Swift and GROND February 23, 2009
Smoke Rings Swift XRT image of sgrj1550-5418 flare March 2, 2009
A Swiftly Tilting Comet Swift image of comet March 9, 2009
Turn Turn Turn RXTE lightcurve of Eta Car March 16, 2009
The Birth and Death of Stars composite image of the Medusa galaxy (also known as NGC 4194) shows X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and optical light from the Hubble Space Telescope in orange March 23, 2009
Onto and Out Chandra image of jets from DG Tau and artist conception March 30, 2009
Serene Sun Hinode image of the Solar Corona from April 3 2009 April 6, 2009
Our Erratic Universe Fermi Scanning the Sky April 13, 2009
Cigar Afficionado Multiwavelength view of M82 April 20, 2009
Pileup on the Intergalactic Freeway Chandra and HST image of collision of 4 clusters of galaxies April 27, 2009
Close to the Big Bang z=8.2 afterglow seen by Swift May 4, 2009
Resolving the Ridge Spitzer image of Galactic Center and Deep Chandra field May 11, 2009
The Sun is Burning TESIS XUV image of the Solar Limb May 18, 2009
The Color of Carina X-ray Color image of the Carina Nebula May 25, 2009
A Cry from Long Ago Chandra, MERLIN and SDSS composite of HDF 130 June 1, 2009
Enrichment 26Al map of the Galaxy by INTEGRAL June 8, 2009
Faster than a Speeding Photon? XMM-Newton image of M87 jets June 15, 2009
What Broke the Ball? X-ray and IR image of SNR 0104-72.3 and field June 22, 2009
Monitoring the Twist Artist conception of twisted spacetime near a black hole June 29, 2009
Speed Gun Chandra, HST and VLA images of M87 jet July 6, 2009
Blind Pulsars Fermi All Sky Map showing pulsar locations July 13, 2009
Hope for the ISS The Kibo module and MAXI July 20, 2009
Decade 10 years of discovery with Chandra July 27, 2009
Outburst of a Magnetic Personality Artist's impression of a magnetar and an XMM X-ray lightcurve of the outburst August 3, 2009
Forwards and Backwards X-ray and optical image of SNR E0102 August 10, 2009
What's the Matter with the Big Bang? alpha magnetic spectrometer August 17, 2009
405 X-ray images of Kepler's Supernovae August 24, 2009
Outskirts Suzaku image of PKS 0745-191 with HST image inset August 31, 2009
Neutron Star Storm SGR 1900+14 BAT lightcurve September 7, 2009
Heavyweight Artist conception of HD 49798 September 14, 2009
Cavities with Iron Fillings Chandra image of Hydra galaxy cluster September 21, 2009
Light from the Dawn of Time Planck sees the cosmic Microwave radiation September 28, 2009
Andromeda Unchained UV mosaic of M31 October 5, 2009
Darkness Dancing Chandra and Hubble composite of NGC 6240 October 12, 2009
Edge Effect IBEX all sky map October 19, 2009
A Magnetic, High Energy Personality INTEGRAL observation of SGR 0501+4516, with model October 26, 2009
The Great Photon Race Fermi Photon Race November 2, 2009
Long Distance Champion Afterglow of GRB 090423 November 9, 2009
The LMC in Gamma Rays Fermi LAT image of the LMC November 16, 2009
Solar Tsunami SOHO image of solar tsunami November 23, 2009
Do Look Back redshift histogram November 30, 2009
Heavy Metal Mine redshift histogram December 7, 2009
Blazing Brightest ever Gamma-ray blazar December 14, 2009
The Shape of Things that Were Chandra view of two types of supernova remnants December 21, 2009
The High-Energy Year in Review 2009 High Energy Montage December 28, 2009


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