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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2025



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Title Date
Held in the Cat's Paw Composite Spitzer IR/Chandra X-ray image of the star forming region NGC 6334 December 1, 2025
Raining onto a White Dwarf Illustration of accretion onto a white dwarf in the intermedate polar system Ex Hydrae November 24, 2025
The Raving The Chandra Deep Field South: Chandra's view of monstrous, ancient black holes feasting in a field of celestial gore November 17, 2025
US Government Shutdown
End of the Line? Artist interpretation of an accreting intermediate polar binary system September 29, 2025
The Inside-Out Former Star Composite image of Cas A supernova remnant; inset: Silicon-rich vs. neon-rich material portions of the remnant September 22, 2025
The Dark Cool Heart of the Sun Illustration of Blue Ghost and LEXI on the Moon Sepember 15, 2025
Reverberating through Time Illustration of reflection from the accretion disc of material orbiting a supermassive black hole September 8, 2025
Another Near Miss Observation and model of the X-ray variability of Eta Carinae September 1, 2025
A Helping Hand X-ray and radio observation of the pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52 August 25, 2025
Searching for Sulfur in the ISM X-ray (blue) + IR/optical composite of Milky Way centered on the X-ray binary GX 340+0 August 18, 2025
Expelled Illustration of a coronal mass ejection from the star HR 9024 August 11, 2025
Building a Bigger Black Hole Composite Chandra X-ray/Hubble optical image of an elliptical galaxy showing an X-ray outburst produced by an intermediate mass black hole devouring a star August 4, 2025
Flashing Lights - Proceed with Caution Chandra X-ray image of the stars in the Lagoon Nebula July 28, 2025
Understanding Transitions Illustration of PSR J1023 showing the interaction between the pulsar magnetic field and accretion disk July 21, 2025
High Velocity Rounds Illustration of clumpy wind driven by the supermassive black hole PDF 456; inset: Resolve spectrum showing absorption by high velocity louds in the wind July 14, 2025
Recurring Fireworks Illustration of a QPE around a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy; inset: X-ray variability from NICER and XMM July 7, 2025
Raging Star extreme UV image of a strong stellar flare on the sun, June 19 2025, by the Solar Dynamics Observatory June 30, 2025
A Puzzling Change of State Artist illustration of a microquasar. Dedicated to K. Pottschmidt. June 23, 2025
Giant Swarm Composite optical, radio and X-ray image of the largest known cloud of energetic particles yet seen June 16, 2025
Who Ordered X-rays from a Magnetar Outburst? X-ray image of the SNR Kes 73, an illustration of the magnetar at the center of the SNR, and the polarized X-ray emission from the magnetar, detected by IXPE June 9, 2025
Mysterious Signals from Deep Space X-ray and radio composite of the LPT ASKAP J1832 June 2, 2025
Reflections of Past Activity Integral Hard X-ray image of the center of the Milky Way May 26, 2025
Where We Are, and Where We're Heading Timeline of NASA astrophysics space missions May 19, 2025
Swan Song of a Dying Star WR 140 composite Chandra X-ray and IR images, sonified May 12, 2025
Bending the Snake Radio emission from the Snake, disturbed by an X-ray emitting neutron star May 5, 2025
Bumps in the Night XTEND image of the field around V4641 Sgr April 28, 2025
Blacklight Andromeda Swift UV image of M31 April 21, 2025
Digging for Holes Illustration of an obscured AGN seen in 4 different energies of EM radiation: clockwise from upper left: IR, visible, soft X-ray, hard X-ray April 14, 2025
Truly Trust Your Heart NDC 346 X-ray Nebula April 7, 2025
The Leftovers Artist's interpretation of GRO J1655-40; inset: X-ray spectrum which indicates the composition of the X-ray emitting gas March 31, 2025
Remains of a Planet in a Planetary Nebula? The Helix Nebula and its central X-ray bright source March 24, 2025
A Cloverleaf for an ORC the Cloverleaf Odd rRdio Circle in visible light (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Survey), in white and yellow; X-rays from XMM-Newton in blue;  radio from the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder in red. March 17, 2025
A Finite INTEGRAL Artist's illustration of INTEGRAL on orbit March 10, 2025
X-raying the Earth's Magnetic Shield from the Moon Illustration of Blue Ghost and LEXI on the Moon March 3, 2025
To Touch the Sky The Braille Sky February 24, 2025
Bouquet of the Tarantula Deep Chandra X-ray image of 30 Dor compared to radio, IR and optical images February 17, 2025
Guideposts in the Outer Darkness Illustration of NICER and an X-ray pulsar February 10, 2025
What's Behind the Darkness Illustration of X-ray echoes from behing a black hole February 3, 2025
International Agreement on High-Energy Truth Cross-calibration of nine X-ray space observatories. From  top to bottom, left to right: XMM-Newton, Chandra, IXPE; INTEGRAL, NuSTAR, Einstein Probe; NICER, Swift, XRISM January 27, 2025
Into Darkness On-orbit patching of NICER by ISS astronaut Nick Hague on January 16, 2025 January 20, 2025
Patching NICER Simulation of spacewalk to repair NICER, to be done January 16, 2025 January 13, 2025
Why Does X Mark the Spot? X-ray, optical and IR view of NGC 5084 and its central black January 6, 2025



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Page Author: Dr. Michael F. Corcoran
Last modified Monday, 01-Dec-2025 07:48:46 EST