The Crab Nebula It shines with a strange sort of light that gives evidence of a wholly unexpected natural phenomenon. This glowing body of gas is apparently a gigantic electron synchrotron ...

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into ... outside of it, you see light. But wave optics introduces a different behavior—waves bend around obstacles and ...

The exploding supergiant star—the result of its core collapsing ... Its remnants can still be seen as the Crab Nebula (M1) in the constellation of Taurus. A cloud of gas and dust expanding ...

Crab Nebula: This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well studied objects in astronomy. Butterfly emerges from ...

With the advantage of modern telescopes, though, we can see that some of those ... like a phoenix from the ashes of the star that came before. The Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant nebula.

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

colorful stars, and lifelike gray dust formations combine to create an image of yearning cloud creatures at dusk, reaching for something just out of frame.” The Crab Nebula is a remnant of a ...

NGC 6302, in the Milky Way’s Scorpius constellation, spans two light-years, with glowing gas expelled from a star 2200 years ago. This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year ...

Glimpse Into the Orion Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week offers a stunning glimpse into the ...