The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra Observatory unveil the secrets of the Crab Nebula, a spectacular remnant of a historic supernova. The Crab Nebula, observed by the James Webb ...

Better known as the Crab Nebula, Messier 1 was initially mistaken for Halley’s Comet by Charles Messier, leading him to compile his famous catalog of celestial objects.

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula. A theoretical ...

Crab Nebula is a remnant of bright supernova explosion. (X-ray, Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, Infrared, Webb: NASA/STScI, Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major) A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and ...

Scientists have used the powerful instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about the unusual Crab Nebula. This nebula is the result of a supernova – a star exploding at the ...

At the heart of the Crab Nebula lies a neutron star, known as the Crab Pulsar. This pulsar is the collapsed core of the original star that exploded, and it spins about 30 times per second.

This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different structural details of the Crab Nebula. The observations were ...

They have comprehensively analyzed the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Equipped with the telescope's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument ...

In the 19th century, Irish astronomer Lord Rosse named the curious object the Crab Nebula, not least because it appeared to have "streams running out like claws in every direction." A new mosaic of ...

The Crab nebula in Taurus [4] . In the case of metal ... at 0 degree. On the other hand, declination is known to be as the equivalent of Latitude. The parabolic dish was adjusted to look at Taurus A ...

When Chinese astronomers first glimpsed the Crab Nebula in 1054 CE — they didn’t see anything like this. A new photo courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captures milky strands of ...