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HEASARC Picture of the Week: 2024



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Title Date
Sculpting a Black Hole's Corona Illustration of a black hole's accretion disk and corona November 18, 2024
Pinpointing Our Dark Heart Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics observation of Sgr A* November 11, 2024
Resolving a Dead and Dying Star XRISM/Resolve X-ray spectrum of Cyg X-3 November 4, 2024
Death Comes from Above X-ray image of Mars taken with the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer.  Green: Emission produced by the capture of solar electrons by ions in the outer martian atmosphere; orange: emission from the interaction of solar X-rays with martian material. The black circle shows the size and location of the planet. October 28, 2024
Probe Explorers Artist rendition of the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) October 21, 2024
The Power of Two Chandra X-ray and JWST IR composite image of Rho Oph October 14, 2024
What's Happening Behind a Black Hole? Illustration of X-ray echoes from behing a black hole October 7, 2021
Activity in Proximity Artist illustration of the the entangled magnetic fields in the protostellar binary DQ Tau September 30, 2024
In the Vicinity of a Supermassive Black Hole Illustration of the active black hole nucleus in NGC 4151 and (inset) emission from iron atoms near the nucleus from  XRISM Resolve spectrum September 23, 2024
Big Blast in a Little Box BurstCube deployed from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024. September 16, 2024
Polarized Pulsar Wind IXPE studies the polarization of emission in the Vela pulsar wind nebula; composite of IXPE, Chandra and optical images September 9, 2024
The Birth of a New Magnetar Artist illustration of a magnetar September 2, 2024
Prominent Activity EUV image of a large solar promience seen by SDO on April 19. 2010 August 26, 2024
Leon X-1 Chandra first detected X-ray source, Leon X-1 August 19, 2024
Growing Black Holes in a Young Universe Chandra X-ray and Hubble optical images of the southern deep field; inset: illusttration of a supermassive black hole accreting matter from its surrounding August 12, 2024
Breaking Down the Cosmic Cliffs Chandra X-ray and JWST near IR image of the cosmic cliffs in the Carina Nebula August 5, 2024
Chandra's Silver Jubilee Sample of 25 stunning high-resolution X-ray images obtained by the Chanda X-ray Observatory July 29, 2024
Raising XL-Calibur Launch of XL-Calibur July 22, 2024
Black Hole Bull's Eye Swift XRT image of X-ray light echoes around black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni July 15, 2024
Pushing White Dwarfs Over the Edge Illustration of accretion onto a magnetic CV July 8, 2024
Gaining Weight Left: X-ray image of a growing black hole and an illustration of an accreting supermassive black hole; Right: computer simulation of the growth of structure in the Universe July 1, 2024
The Dwarf that Roared Artist's illustration of a magnetically-active brown dwarf; inset: X-ray increase from J0331-27 seen by XMM-Newton June 24, 2024
Fermi By the Book Fermi's 15th Anniversary e-book June 17, 2024
Reflections of Sco X-1 Single bounce reflections of Sco X-1 off XMM Newton mirror shells June 10, 2024
Exhausting X-ray and radio composite of the region near the Galactic Center June 3, 2024
Fixing a Hole The NICER patchk it May 27, 2024
The Iron Grip of the Black Hole in NGC 4151 XRISM/Resolve spectrum of emission from near the central black hole in NGC4151 May 20, 2024
Stormy Solar Weather The Sun on May 9, 2024 as seen by SDO. Active region 3664 is the bright region on the lower right of the Sun's disk May 13, 2024
The Hunt for the Hidden Supernova Composite X-ray, IR and optical image of SNR 1181 May 6, 2024
A Lobster's Eye View of the Galactic Center Einstein Probe WXT image of the center of the Milky Way April 29, 2024
BurstCube BurstCube flight configuration April 22, 2024
A Quasar Under the Influence Composite X-ray, and radio image of quasar H1821+643 April 15, 2024
Corona Light The state of the solar corona, as seen by SOHO, April, 8, 2024, prior to the total solar eclipse April 8, 2024
The Milky Way's Magnetic Field, From the Center Out Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way from the center out April 1, 2024
An Exchange with the Sun Diagram showing the density of helium atoms near the solar system and the pointing direction of DXL March 25, 2024
Unhappy Wanderer? Chandra X-ray and optical image of the globular cluster NGC 6388 March 18, 2024
Dissecting Perseus XRISM high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the Perseus Cluster and composite image of the cluster March 11, 2024
The Collapsed Core of a Core-Collapse Supernova JWST and Chandra images of SN 1987a. The JWST image shows most direct evidence yet for the creation of a neutron star March 4, 2024
The FRB-Glitch Connection Artist conception of a magnetar, source of fast radio bursts February 26, 2024
NICER: Watching in the Night 22 months of X-ray data recorded by NICER during its nighttime slew February 19, 2024
LISA, adopted Artist concept of LISA February 12, 2024
The Astounding X-ray Sky A map of half the sky from the first eROSITA Data Release February 5, 2024
Rapidly X-raying a Supernova M101 image showing NuSTAR detection of high-energy X-rays from SN2023ixf (in green) January 29, 2024
Off the Rails Composite Radio, IR and X-ray image of the Manatee Nebula/SS 433 January 22, 2024
Watcher of the Skies Artist illustration of the Einstein Probe January 15, 2024
Resolving the Secrets of the Universe XRISM Resolve high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the N132D supernova remnant January 8, 2024
A Happy High Energy New Year Happy high energy New Year January 1, 2024



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