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HEASARC Picture of the Week



Title Date
Bounding the Gamma-Ray Sky Gamma Ray constellations defined by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope October 22, 2018
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory January 29, 2018
The High Energy Year in Review: 2017 The High Energy Year in Review:2017 January 1, 2018
The High Energy Year in Review: 2016 The High Energy Year in Review: 2016 January 2, 2017
100 Milliseconds that Shook the World First LIGO detection of a gravitational wave event February 15, 2016
That Was the Year that Was, Wasn't It? The HEAPOW Year in Pictures, 2015 January 4, 2016
Remembrance of Things Past Highlights from the Chandra Archive December 28, 2015
The High Energy Year in Pictures High Energy Astrophysics Pictures of the Year December 29, 2014
The Year in Pictures High Energy Astrophysics Pictures of the Year December 30, 2013
Remembering Sally Ride Dr. Sally K. Ride on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Her shirt features a cartoon of 35 busy astronauts around a shuttle with the acronym TFNG, which stands for thirty five new guys, a nickname for the 1978 astronaut class. May 27, 2013
Astounding View of a Non-Accreting Black Hole The Year in Review, 2013 April 1, 2013
Endings and Beginnings The Year in Review, 2013 December 31, 2012
The Eagle has Landed Neil Armstrong, August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012 August 27, 2012
The High-Energy Year in Review 2009 High Energy Montage December 28, 2009
"Touch the Invisible Sky" Touch the Invisible Sky March 10, 2008
The High Energy Year In Review 2007 Year in review December 31, 2007
The Crew of STS 107 Crew of STS 107 February 3, 2003


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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 February 1, 2002

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