On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab Nebula, a bright cosmic object 6,500 light-years away. In those days, before ...
The Crab Nebula has been one of astronomy’s most scrutinized objects for nearly a millennium, yet Hubble’s first fresh look in almost a quarter century shows it is still capable of surprise. The new ...
The Crab Nebula, one of the most studied remnants of a supernova explosion observed nearly a thousand years ago, has been revisited by the Hubble Space Telescope. In a recent study available on ArXiv, ...