The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its attention toward the Crab Nebula (M1) and revealed “exquisite, never-before-seen details” in this image released Oct. 30. Tea Temim and team at ...

This week’s naked-eye object is the Beehive Cluster in Cancer the Crab. ... To best observe the Rosette Nebula, use a 10-inch or larger telescope and an eyepiece that gives a magnification of 50x.

This past month NASA released a dramatic new video, employing state-of-the-art visible light, X-ray, and infrared technology, of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star explosion first observed on ...

Located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus (not Cancer, as one might expect — it gets its name from the crustacean-looking sketch astronomers first made of it) the Crab Nebula is ...

In addition, the nebula keeps expanding, an effect seen visually, at a speed of 1,500 km/s, or 0.5% the speed of light. Hubble image of a small region of the Crab Nebula, showing Rayleigh–Taylor ...

The Crab Nebula was formed from the supernova explosion of a massive star in A.D. 1054, creating one of the most spectacular ongoing cosmic fireworks displays.

The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion seen by Chinese and other astronomers in the year 1054, is some 6,500 light-years from Earth.

The Crab nebula is one of the most studied objects in space. It is the wreckage of a violent stellar explosion, called a supernova. The dying star was located 6,500 light-years from Earth in the ...

They're known as the Crab Nebula, and deep within the heart of the cloud lies a very powerful, rapidly spinning neutron star. It recently blasted Earth with the highest-energy gamma rays ever ...