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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2011



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Title Date
Slowly Turning X-ray/optical image of outer SMC+SXP 1062 January 2, 2012
Time Flies Pre-launch RXTE January 9, 2012
Jet Taking Off VLBA and X-ray studies of jet from H17430=-322 black hole January 16, 2012
Coming Your Way SDO image of January 19, 2012 solar flare January 23, 2012
NuSTAR Birth Pre-launch NuSTAR January 30, 2012
Which Way to Explode? Chandra image of G350.1-0.3 February 6, 2012
Black Hole Meteors? Are asteroids falling into the Milky Way's Black Hole? February 13, 2012
Planck meets Fermi Planck (blue) and Fermi (red) all sky images superimposed February 20, 2012
ULX Unmasked X-ray image of the ULX February 27, 2012
UFOs from AGN Artist Rendition of an ultra-fast outflow near an AGN March 5, 2012
March Wind Artist impression of the black hole wind in IGR J17091-3624 March 12, 2012
We Have Ignition This graph based on RXTE data provides an overview of the changing character of T5X2's X-ray emission during outbursts from Oct. 13 to Nov. 19, 2010. March 19, 2012
Double Degenerate? merged X-ray view of SN Ia by Swift March 26, 2012
ISCO Facto? Artist interpretation of accretion disks around spinning and non-spinning black holes April 2, 2012
What is the Matter? dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Fornax? April 9, 2012
What Cen A Ate Herschel IR and XMM X-ray image of Centaurus A April 16, 2012
Cool Science Final IceCube detector being placed under the Antarctic ice April 23, 2012
Swift Snows of Yesteryear Sublime Swift UVOT image of Comet Garradd April 30, 2012
A Black Hole Too Big? Composite image of ULX in M83 May 7, 2012
Wonderful Wandering Wake Mira UV wake May 14, 2012
A Breakthrough Chandra/HST image of SN 2010jl May 21, 2012


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