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Crab Nebula
Hubble Visible 2000 Image of the Crab Nebula
This Hubble image is one of the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well studied objects in astronomy. This image was the largest image taken with Hubble's WFPC2 camera when it was released. It was assembled from 24 individual exposures...
Crab Nebula
Hubble Visible 2024 Image of the Crab Nebula
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the intricate detail of the Crab Nebula with its Wide Field Camera 3. The colours in the image trace Hubble’s detection of oxygen and sulfur gases in the nebula at varying densities and energies. The blue areas are the hottest and lowest density....
Crab Nebula
SWIFT Ultraviolet Image of the Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is the wreckage of an exploded star, or supernova, observed in the year 1054. The expanding cloud of gas is located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. This composite of three Swift UVOT ultraviolet images highlights the luminous hot gas in the supernova remnant....
Crab Nebula
VLA Radio Image of the Crab Nebula
This radio image of the Crab Nebula from the Very Large Array shows the cool gas and dust blown out by the supernova winds. Read more.
Crab Nebula
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Image of the Crab Nebula
This image gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula. The nebula is powered by a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center). The combination of rapid rotating and strong magnetic field...
Crab Nebula
James Webb Space Telescope Infrared Image of the Crab Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula in the search for answers about the supernova remnant’s origins. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have revealed new details in infrared light. Similar to the Hubble optical wavelength...
IRAS 00500+6713
Supernova remnant Pa 30
No, this is not a firework display. This is Pa 30 — the likely remnant of the historic supernova witnessed in the year 1181, now captured here in unprecedented detail by the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science...
M42
ALMA view of an explosive event in Orion
Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations of the Orion Nebula complex provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth. Astronomers captured these dramatic images of the remains...
M42
Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula
"This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula....
M42
The Cosmic Hearth
This Chandra image shows the Orion Nebula Cluster, a rich cluster of young stars observed almost continuously for 13 days. The long observation enabled scientists to study the X-ray behavior of young Sun-like stars with ages between 1 and 10 million years. They discovered that these young stars...
M42
GBT/VLA Image of Orion Nebula
This image of the Orion Nebula combines data from the National Radio Astronomy Obervatory's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The GBT is a 100m diamter single dish radio telescope. The VLA is an array of 27...
M42
Orion Nebula in Visible Light
This visible-light AAT image shows the Orion Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are forming. Bright, glowing regions surround the young stars of the Orion Nebula Cluster, while dark clouds of dust appear as intricate lanes across the nebula. The nebula’s structure is shaped by...
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Globular Cluster Mayall II in the Neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (
M31 G1, Mayall II
Hubble Space Telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph consisting of at least 300,000 old stars. G1, also known as Mayall II, orbits the Andromeda galaxy (M31), the nearest major spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. ...
