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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2026



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Crash Into You Upper left: Chandra and Hubble image of a merger of 2 neutron stars, along with artist's illustration of the merging system  (lower left) and the galaxy where it occurred (right) March 23, 2026
A Composite of Uranus Chandra X-ray and Keck optical image of Uranus March 16, 2026
Astrosphere around a Young Sun Composite Chandra X-ray (white/purple), Hubble infrared (blue and white) and optical image of the astrophere around the young sun-like star HD61005 March 9, 2026
Getting the Slant on an X-ray Jet Left: observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer).  Right: an image of the Perseus Cluster by the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the same spatial scale.  3C84 is the bright point at the center of the IXPE image March 2, 2026
Growing Big Stars without Metals IR, Optical, UV and X-ray composite image of NGC 346 February 23, 2026
The Mouse that Roared Superflare from EV Lac February 16, 2026
Entanglement Simulation of the entanglement of neutron star's magnetic fields just before merging February 9, 2026
Getting an Early Start on Construction Chandra and JWST image of JADES-1, a very old cluster of galaxies, formed only 1 billion years after the big bang February 2, 2026
Far from the Madding Crowd Three million second Chandra X-ray image around the Galactic Center January 26, 2026
Polarized Pulsar Wind IXPE studies the polarization of emission in the Vela pulsar wind nebula; composite of IXPE, Chandra and optical images January 19, 2026
BlackCAT Artist rendition of BlackCAT January 12, 2026
Starting the New Year with a Bang Composite Chandra X-ray (blue) and optical image of a luminous fast blue optical transient in an external galaxy January 5, 2026



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Each week the HEASARC scours the archive of X-ray and Gamma Ray observations to bring you new, exciting and beautiful images. Check back each week and be sure to check out the archive!

Page Author: Dr. Michael F. Corcoran
Last modified Monday, 23-Mar-2026 11:54:33 EDT