Title | Date |
Neutron Star of Wonder | ![Two views of GRB101225A](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/grb101225A_swift_small.jpg) | December 26, 2011 |
The Littlest Black Hole | ![Artist rendition of IGR J17091-3624; inset: X-ray brightness curve](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/igrJ17091_rxte_small.jpg) | December 19, 2011 |
A Guest Star, Identified | ![Infrared and X-ray image of RCW 86](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/rcw86_chandra_small.jpg) | December 12, 2011 |
Cosmic Ray Cocoon | ![Infrared and LAT/Gamma-Ray image of Cyg X star forming region](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/cygx_lat_small.jpg) | December 5, 2011 |
The Spin of SpaceTime | ![RXTE X-ray history of Cyg X-1](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/cygx1_spin_small.jpg) | November 28, 2011 |
Thanksgiving | ![Goldstone image of earth-crossing asteroid 2005 YU55](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/2005_YU55_small.jpg) | November 21, 2011 |
Headspinning | ![Fermi LAT observation of the youngest millisecond pulsar, PSR J1823-3021A](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/psrj1832_fermi_small.jpg) | November 7, 2011 |
The Tell-Tale Hole | ![Chandra observation of the Gorgon's Head in Perseus](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/perseus_chandra_2011_small.jpg) | October 31, 2011 |
The End of ROSAT | ![Artist rendering of ROSAT](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/rosat_reentry_small.jpg) | October 24, 2011 |
More from the Crab | ![Crab Gamma-ray pulsations](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/crab_veritas_small.jpg) | October 17, 2011 |
Black Hole Burps | ![Multiwavelength Campaign of Observations of the AGN MRK 509](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/mrk509_campaign_small.jpg) | October 10, 2011 |
High and Low | ![X-ray image of Cyg OB2](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/cygob2_xmm_small.jpg) | October 3, 2011 |
Light OPERA; or Faster? | ![The OPERA experiment at Italy's INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/lightspeed_opera_small.jpg) | September 26, 2011 |
Blasted Planet | ![Chandra's view of CoRoT-2b, a planet blasted by stellar X-rays](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/corot2a_chandra_small.jpg) | September 19, 2011 |
A Deeper Universe | ![LAT 2-year all sky gamma-ray map](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/fermi_2yr_small.jpg) | September 12, 2011 |
Double Super | ![X-ray and optical image of NGC 3393](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/ngc3393_chandra_small.jpg) | September 5, 2011 |
Swift and a Swallow | ![Artist rendition of a Black Hole swallowing a star](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/bh_star_swift_small.jpg) | August 29, 2011 |
Searching for the Next Universe | ![The signatures of a bubble collision at various stages in the analysis pipeline.](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/multiverse_test_small.jpg) | August 22, 2011 |
X-Class | ![SDO image of an X-class flare](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/xclass_sdo_small.jpg) | August 15, 2011 |
Slow Slowing Spin | ![Swift XRT image of RCW 103](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/rcw103_swift_small.jpg) | August 8, 2011 |
Falling In | ![Chandra and VLT images of NGC 3115 and its central black hole](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/ngc3115_chandra_small.jpg) | August 1, 2011 |
Now Who's Farthest? | ![Farthest burst ever seen?](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/grb090429b_swift_small.jpg) | July 25, 2011 |
A Pulsar's Tail | ![Chandra image of the tail of PSR J0357+3205](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/psrj0357_chandra_small.jpg) | July 18, 2011 |
Clumps in the Wind | ![Chandra Deep Field South](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/nsaccretion_xmm_small.jpg) | July 11, 2011 |
Fireworks | ![Artist Conception of LS 2883](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/ls2883_fermi_small.jpg) | July 4, 2010 |
Four Way Stop Sign | ![Chandra + optical image of Abell 2744](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/abell2744_chandra_small.jpg) | June 27, 2011 |
The Beginning of the End of Time | ![Chandra Deep Field South](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/cdfs_chandra_small.jpg) | June 20, 2011 |
What's Tickling RCW 89? | ![Chandra image of PSR B1509-58 and RCW89](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/rcw89_chandra_small.jpg) | June 13, 2011 |
In the Way | ![Tycho SNR in X-rays](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/tycho_arc_chandra_small.jpg) | June 6, 2011 |
Feedback | ![X-ray Map of the Carina Nebula](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/carina_chandra_small.jpg) | May 30, 2011 |
The Places You've Seen | ![RXTE exposure map](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/rxte_expo_small.jpg) | May 23, 2011 |
A Flare from the Crab | ![Gamma-ray flare from the Crab Nebula](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/crabflare_fermi_small.jpg) | May 16, 2011 |
Busted | ![UVOT image of asteroid 596 Scheila](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/scheila_swift_small.jpg) | May 9, 2011 |
Time Flies for RXTE | ![RXTE 15th Birthday Poster](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/rxte_15th_small.jpg) | May 2, 2011 |
Dance of the Double Cluster | ![XMM-Newton false color image of cluster Abell 2028](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/a2028_xmm_small.jpg) | April 25, 2011 |
Short Bursts Solved? | ![Model of a short GRB produced by a neutron star merger](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/shortgrbs_small.jpg) | April 18, 2011 |
Down the Rabbit Hole | ![Lightcurve of a star swallowed by a supermassive black hole](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/grb110328A_swift_small.jpg) | April 11, 2011 |
Tycho Stripes | ![X-ray Stripes in Tycho's SNR](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/tychostripes_chandra_small.jpg) | April 4, 2011 |
The Fringes of Perseus | ![Suzaku study of the Perseus Cluster](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/perseus_suzaku_small.jpg) | March 28, 2011 |
The Ring | ![X-ray/optical image of Arp 147, showing ring of black holes](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/arp147_chandra_small.jpg) | March 21, 2011 |
Mature for Your Age | ![A Cluster at High Redshift](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/hizcluster_xmm_small.jpg) | March 14, 2011 |
Silent Superball | ![Superfluid neutron star in Cas A SNR](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/casa_ns_chandra_small.jpg) | March 7, 2011 |
What's Eating the Crab? | ![Gamma-ray flare from the Crab](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/crab_flare_small.jpg) | February 28, 2011 |
Hot HOt HOT | ![X-ray Nebula around NGC 346](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/ngc346_chandra_small.jpg) | February 14, 2011 |
Solving the Chicken-Egg Conundrum | ![Henize 210 composite](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/he210_chandra_small.jpg) | February 7, 2011 |
Parsing the Background | ![makeup of the CXB](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/swift_cxb_small.jpg) | January 31, 2011 |
Jets Stopped Short | ![Hanny's Voorwerp](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/expired_jet_small.jpg) | January 24, 2011 |
Go Jets | ![composite X-ray and radio images study of the jet in Cen A.](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/cenajet_chandra_small.jpg) | January 17, 2011 |
Life and Death in M31 | ![Hanny's Voorwerp](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/m31_composite_small.jpg) | January 10, 2011 |
Growing Black Holes | ![composite X-ray and optical images of galaxies used in a recent study of supermassive black holes](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/smbhsurvey_chandra_small.jpg) | January 3, 2011 |