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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2013



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Title Date
A Super-TIGER on the Prowl SuperTIGER launch, Antarctica, Dec 9 2012 January 7, 2013
Brightening Near the Heart of Blackness VLBA and Fermi observations of a gamma-ray flare in 4C +71.07 January 16, 2013
Turn Around Chandra X-ray image of the Vela Pulsar January 21, 2013
Shot in the Dark Artist impression of Euclid January 28, 2013
Purple and Gold Super Bubble Composite X-ray and optical image of DEM L50 February 4, 2013
Born Again Abell30 composite image February 11, 2013
Local Fireball Chandra image of W49B supernova remnant February 18, 2013
Accelerating Jellyfish Fermi gamma-ray and multiwavelength image of the JellyFish Supernova remnant February 25, 2013
Reflections on a Spinning Black Hole Artist conception of the spinning black hole at the center of NGC 1365 March 4, 2013
The EOS Chandra image of 47 Tuc March 11, 2013
Hot Gas Inside the Eskimo XMM and optical images of the Eskimo Nebula March 18, 2013
Relic Planck's first 15.5 months of all-sky observations March 25, 2013
Astounding View of a Non-Accreting Black Hole The Year in Review, 2013 April 1, 2013
Another Rung on the Ladder Chandra observation of X-ray emission from the Kepler SNR, with labels April 8, 2013
A Tax of Metal Poor Stars Composite image of NGC 602 in the SMC April 15, 2013
Long, Long Burst Histogram of GRBs including ultra-long bursts April 22, 2013
Mosaic of 1006 Chandra X-ray mosaic of SN 1006 April 29, 2013
The Wow Burst LAT image of the April 27, 2013 gamma-ray burst May 6, 2013
Stars A-Bursting Composite X-ray/optical image of colliding galaxies NGC 6240 May 13, 2013
High Energy Ghost Particles from Outer Space IceCube Neutrino Detector May 20, 2013


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