Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula

NASA and ESA has released this image of the Crab Nebula -- a six-light-year-wide, and expanding at 1,000 km per second, remnant of a star that went supernova. The neutron star at the nebula's centre, the Crab Pulsar, is about 10 km in diameter and rotates at 30 times per second. The event was recorded by Chinese and Arabian astronomers in 1054 -- being visible in the sky during the day for almost a month.

Simply spectacular.


Image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.


The Crab Nebula: Composite Image from Hubble in the Optical and Chandra in the X-Ray -- released in 2002.

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