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The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The common name comes from a drawing that somewhat resembled a crab with arms produced by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse , in 1842 or 1843 using a 36-inch (91 cm) telescope . [ 6 ]
The Crab Nebula is a remnant of an exploded star. This is the Crab Nebula in various energy bands, including a hard X-ray image from the HEFT data taken during its 2005 observation run. Each image is 6' wide. The guest star reported by Chinese astronomers in 1054 is identified as SN 1054. The highlighted passages refer to the supernova.
Astronomers picked out wispy never-before-seen features of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of an exploded star, using the James Webb Space Telescope.
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It spins at a rate of 30 times per second, spewing energy beams and taking on a decidedly pulsating appearance.
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Image combines optical data from Hubble (in red) and X-ray data from Chandra (in blue). A pulsar wind nebula ( PWN , plural PWNe ), sometimes called a plerion (derived from the Greek "πλήρης", pleres , meaning "full"), [ 1 ] is a type of nebula sometimes found inside the shell of a supernova remnant (SNR), powered by winds generated by a ...