Multi-wavelength view of the HESS J1018–589 region. On the top left a) XMM-Newton exposure-corrected counts map centered on SNR G284.3–1.8 in the 0.3 to 2 keV energy band in color scale combining the three EPIC cameras. The image (in excess per arcmin²) is in logarithmic scale and it was adaptively smoothed to emphasize the extended thermal emission. The white-dashed contours show the radio image of SNR G284.3–1.8 from MOST-Molonglo observations at 843 MHz. The extraction region to evaluate the diffuse X-ray emission is shown in green. On the top right b) XMM-Newton exposure-corrected counts map with the EPIC cameras at high energies in the 2 to 8 keV energy band. The white cross and yellow circle mark the best fit position of the H.E.S.S. point-like emission and the 95% confidence level of the Fermi-LAT source 2FGL J1019.0–5856. On the left bottom c) the significance contours for the two different oversampling radii for HESS J1018–589 are shown in green (0.1°) and white (0.22°). The best-fit positions (white cross) of the VHE γ-ray, superimposed on the MOST-Molonglo radio map are displayed, together with the position of PSR J1016–5857 (yellow star) and 2FGL J1019.0–5856 (in dashed-yellow). On the right bottom d) a zoom of the radio shell (in white) is shown together with the contours of the thermal emission in green and Hα observations from the SuperCOSMOS H-alpha Survey (in intensity units).