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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2023



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Title Date
Evergreen Composite X-ray, optical and infrared images of the star cluster NGC 2264 December 25, 2023
Our Shrinking Atmosphere Monitoring the effects of global warming on the upper atmosphere using X-ray archival data December 18, 2023
A Disturbance in the Force Top: Illustration of the detection of GRB 221009a by INTEGRAL and position of the CSES satellite; bottom: orbital position of CSES when GRB 221009a occured and change in the electromagnetic state of the ionosphere was detected December 11, 2023
Stars Shaping Stars Multiwavelength View of the giant molecular cloud W51 December 4, 2023
The Fix is In November 27, 2023
Our New Universe Already Had a Hole in It Chandra and JWST identify the most distant black hole ever recorded November 20, 2023
NewAthena. Now. ESA's Athena Concept November 13, 2023
Pointing the Way IXPE image of the pulsar wind nebula MSH115-52 November 6, 2023
The Widow in Black Illustration of PSR J1311-3430, the black widow pulsar October 30, 2023
A Leave the Well Alone Artist rendering of a disrupted star being accreted by a black hole; inset: X-ray spectrum showing the chemical composition of this material October 23, 2023
Black Hole Tempest in a Petri Dish Siulating the disturbed hot gas in the Perseus cluster of galaxies in a petri dish October 16, 2023
Staring at the Sun October 9, 2023
A Blast from a Great Eruption X-rays from a blast wave around the eruptive superstar eta Carina October 2, 2023
A Brief Awakening of Our Galactic Monster IXPE observation of reflected emission from a cloud near Sgr A* September 25, 2023
Vela in Full Color eROSITA image of Vela supernova remnant and associates September 18, 2023
The Launch of XRISM The XRISM spacecraft undergoing final testing in May 2023 at Tsukuba Space Center, Japan. September 11, 2023
A Map of Motion in Perseus Hitomi observation of the Perseus cluster September 4, 2023
Fingerprints of the Decedent Illustration of the tidal disruption of a massive star; inset: the fingerprint of the star's composition August 28, 2023
A Bright, Weird Burst Illustraton of a jet-driven GRB August 21, 2023
Large-Scale Weight Gain Chandra X-ray and JWST IR composite image of the El Gordo cluster August 14, 2023
UFOs Surrounding a Black Hole XMM and NuSTAR combined quasar X-ray spectrum and artist impression of a quasar wind August 7, 2023
The Great Photon Race Artist interpretation of photon race observed by Fermi July 31, 2023
Approaching Peak Solar Activity SDO 3-color soft X-ray image of the Sun, July 24 2023 July 24, 2023
Why So Luminous? Artist conception of an ultra-luminous X-ray source and its magnetic field lines July 17, 2023
Ghosts of the Milky Way Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger views of the Milky Way July 10, 2023
Spacetime, Shaken and Stirred Artistic represenation of the thrumming of spacetime from the gravitational wave background as detected by pulsar timing arrays July 3, 2023
The Curl of the Crab IXPE polarization measures of the Crab Nebula June 26, 2023
A Final Exam for XRISM The XRISM spacecraft undergoing final testing in May 2023 at Tsukuba Space Center, Japan. June 19, 2023
Happy 15th Anniversary to Fermi The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (stained glass illustration) June 12, 2023
Reaching for the Stars Composite Chandra X-ray and JWST infrared image of the Eagle Nebula June 5, 2023
Surfing Perseus Enhanced image of X-ray emission in the Perseus cluster May 29, 2023
The Sword of the Centaur False color high-resolution X-ray image of Centaurus A from the Chandra X-ray Observatory May 22, 2023
Hot as H Chandra X-ray, radio and optical image of M84 showing X-ray cavities evacuated by the radio jet from the supermassive black hole May 15, 2023
Among the Stars X-ray image of Cyg OB2 from XMM, for Stephen A. Drake May 8, 2023
Art and Science, Truth and Beauty The Fermi Bubbles as stained glass May 1, 2023
The Return of RHESSI Artist rendering of RHESSI April 24, 2023
The Shape of the Brightest Burst Images of X-ray rings around GRB221009a as seen by IXPE April 17, 2023
A Voracious Galaxy? Multi-wavelength image of 3C297, a surprisingly lonely galaxy April 10, 2023
The Song of a Supermassive Black Hole A frame from the sonifcation of the X-ray emission around the supermassive black hole in the Perseus Cluster April 3, 2023
Breaking Down the Pillars Chandra and HST image of the Eagle Nebula field March 27, 2023
X-raying the Heart of our Galaxy Color-coded mosaic of the center of the Milky Way by XMM-Newton March 20, 2023
Building Bigger Black Holes Pairs of interacting dwarf galaxies containing active black holes March 13, 2023
Reconstructing a Cluster Collision A composite of Abell 2256 including X-ray emission from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton (in blue), radio images from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) (n red), and optical and infrared data from Pan-STARRs (in white and pale yellow) March 6, 2023
The Launch of ASCA The ASCA X-ray Observatory pre-launch testing February 27, 2023
How to Hide a Supernova Chandra image of G1.9+0.3 supernova remnant February 20, 2023
The Energetic Sun Multi-wavelength image of the energetic Sun February 13, 2023
Getting to the Gold Theoretical evoluton of a massive binary to a neutron star merger February 6, 2023
Complementarity of the Tarantula Chandra X-ray and JWST IR image of the Tarantula Nebula, 30 Dor January 30, 2023
The Dangers of Wandering in the Dark Artist's rendition of a tidal disruption event seen by NuSTAR January 23, 2023
The First Orbiting X-ray Astronomy Facility Marjorie Townsend and Bruno Rossi examine SAS-A at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center January 16, 2023
A Breakthrough Chandra/HST image of SN 2010jl January 9, 2023
A Forward-Looking Retrospective Remembering the high energy year 2022 January 2, 2023



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