Title | Date |
Endings and Beginnings | ![The Year in Review, 2013](/Images/objects/heapow/special/heapow_newyears2013_small.jpg) | December 31, 2012 |
Ornaments | ![INTEGRAL sources in the Galaxy*](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/integral_10yrs_small.jpg) | December 24, 2012 |
Black Hole Symmetry | ![The Symmetry of Black Hole jets](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/bhjet_symmetry_small.jpg) | December 17, 2012 |
Flash | ![Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope over the thunderous Earth](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/tgf_fermi_small.jpg) | December 10, 2012 |
Giant Jet | ![Composite image of the most distant X-ray jet known](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/GB1428_jet_small.jpg) | December 3, 2012 |
A Bridge Too Far | ![Planck Intercluster Bridge](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/planck_bridge_small.jpg) | November 26, 2012 |
Shaping the Future | ![Herschel IR and XMM-Newton observation of W44 SNR](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/w44_xmm_herschel_small.jpg) | November 19, 2012 |
Dead Star Survey | ![Sample from the Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/pnebsurvey_chandra_small.jpg) | November 12, 2012 |
The Fog of Stellar History | ![Fermi observes the fog of cosmic history](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/cosmicfog_fermi_small.jpg) | November 5, 2012 |
Monster Stirring | ![NuSTAR detected flare from Sgr A*](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/sgraflare_nustar_small.jpg) | October 29, 2012 |
Dance of the Veiled Stars | ![XSimulation of colliding wind binary Cyg OB2 #9](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/cygob2_9_sim_small.jpg) | October 22, 2012 |
When Holes Collide | ![Black Hole merger simulation](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/bh_merger_small.jpg) | October 15, 2012 |
Another Hole in the Galaxy | ![New Black Hole Candidate](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/J174510.8-26_swift_small.jpg) | October 8, 2012 |
The WHIM of the Milky Way | ![Artist interpretation of the hot halo around the Milky Way](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/milkyway_whim_small.jpg) | October 1, 2012 |
Will Doomed Star Doom Us Too? | ![X-ray & optical image of Eta Car](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/etacar_wfpc2_chandra_small.jpg) | September 24, 2012 |
Super Powerful Kepler Super Nova? | ![Chandra image of Kepler's supernova remnant](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/keplersnr_chandra_small.jpg) | September 17, 2012 |
Pinpointing a Monster Black Hole | ![Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics observation of Sgr A*](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/sgrastar_campaign_small.jpg) | September 10, 2012 |
Bubble Bulldozer | ![composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/ngc1929_chandra_small.jpg) | September 3, 2012 |
The Eagle has Landed | ![Neil Armstrong, August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012](/Images/objects/heapow/special/neil_armstrong_small.jpg) | August 27, 2012 |
The Star Factory | ![Planck (blue) and Fermi (red) all sky images superimposed](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/phoenix_chandra_small.jpg) | August 20, 2012 |
Lights, Camera, Activity | ![XMM Newton observes X-ray variability of 61 Cyg A](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/61cyg_xmm_small.jpg) | August 13, 2012 |
Escaping the Explosion | ![Composite image of SNR MSH 11-16A and IGR J11014](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/igrj11014_chandra_small.jpg) | August 6, 2012 |
Nine Years of the Milky Way | ![INTEGRAL 9 year image of the Milky Way](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/integral_9yr_small.jpg) | July 30, 2012 |
The Birth and Death of Stars | ![Composite image of the star forming region N51 in the LMC](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/N51_composite_small.jpg) | July 23, 2012 |
X-Class | ![X-class flare from July 12, 2012](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/flare120712_sdo_small.jpg) | July 16, 2012 |
Hot Spot | ![X-ray variation of V1647 Ori](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/v1647_period.jpg) | July 9, 2012 |
New Star View | ![NuSTAR firstlight image](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/nustar_firstlight_small.jpg) | July 2, 2012 |
The Gamma-Ray Sun | ![LAT image showing the entire sky on March 7 in the light of gamma rays with energies beyond 100 MeV](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/solarflare_fermi_small.jpg) | June 25, 2012 |
Stargazer and NuSTAR | ![launch of NuSTAR](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/nustar_launch_small.jpg) | June 18, 2012 |
Lost | ![Chandra/HST images of CID 42](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/cid42_chandra_hst_small.jpg) | June 11, 2012 |
Echolocating a Black Hole | ![Artist view of active nucleus of NGC 4151 with solar system orbits for scale](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/ngc4151_reverb_small.jpg) | June 4, 2012 |
The Pinwheel | ![Composite view of M101](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/m101_composite_small.jpg) | May 28, 2012 |
A Breakthrough | ![Chandra/HST image of SN 2010jl](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/sn2010jl_chandra_small.jpg) | May 21, 2012 |
Wonderful Wandering Wake | ![Mira UV wake](/Images/objects/heapow/stars/mira_galex.jpg) | May 14, 2012 |
A Black Hole Too Big? | ![Composite image of ULX in M83](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/m83_ulx_small.jpg) | May 7, 2012 |
Swift Snows of Yesteryear Sublime | ![Swift UVOT image of Comet Garradd](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/cometgarradd_swift_small.jpg) | April 30, 2012 |
Cool Science | ![Final IceCube detector being placed under the Antarctic ice](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/neutrinos_icecube_small.jpg) | April 23, 2012 |
What Cen A Ate | ![Herschel IR and XMM X-ray image of Centaurus A](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/cena_xir_small.jpg) | April 16, 2012 |
What is the Matter? | ![dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Fornax?](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/dwarfellipticals_fermi_small.jpg) | April 9, 2012 |
ISCO Facto? | ![Artist interpretation of accretion disks around spinning and non-spinning black holes](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/isco_rxte_small.jpg) | April 2, 2012 |
Double Degenerate? | ![merged X-ray view of SN Ia by Swift](/Images/objects/heapow/transients/snIa_swift_small.jpg) | March 26, 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.](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/t5x2_rxte_small.jpg) | March 19, 2012 |
March Wind | ![Artist impression of the black hole wind in IGR J17091-3624](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/bhwind_chandra_small.jpg) | March 12, 2012 |
UFOs from AGN | ![Artist Rendition of an ultra-fast outflow near an AGN](/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/ufo_xmm_small.jpg) | March 5, 2012 |
ULX Unmasked | ![X-ray image of the ULX](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/m31ulx_xmm_small.jpg) | February 27, 2012 |
Planck meets Fermi | ![Planck (blue) and Fermi (red) all sky images superimposed](/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/planck_fermi_small.jpg) | February 20, 2012 |
Black Hole Meteors? | ![Are asteroids falling into the Milky Way's Black Hole?](/Images/objects/heapow/normal_galaxies/doomedasteroid_chandra_small.jpg) | February 13, 2012 |
Which Way to Explode? | ![Chandra image of G350.1-0.3](/Images/objects/heapow/nebulae/g350_chandra_small.jpg) | February 6, 2012 |
NuSTAR Birth | ![Pre-launch NuSTAR](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/nustar_prelaunch_small.jpg) | January 30, 2012 |
Coming Your Way | ![SDO image of January 19, 2012 solar flare](/Images/objects/heapow/solar_system/sdoflare_20120119_small.jpg) | January 23, 2012 |
Jet Taking Off | ![VLBA and X-ray studies of jet from H17430=-322 black hole](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/rxte_jet_small.jpg) | January 16, 2012 |
Time Flies | ![Pre-launch RXTE](/Images/objects/heapow/technology/rxte_eom_small.jpg) | January 9, 2012 |
Slowly Turning | ![X-ray/optical image of outer SMC+SXP 1062](/Images/objects/heapow/compact_objects/sxp1062_xray_small.jpg) | January 2, 2012 |