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 taken as ...

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 ...

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 James Webb Space Telescope has returned spectacular new images of perhaps the most famous nebula in the night sky. The images published today show the Crab Nebula, known as M1, the leftovers of a ...

A team of scientists used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. A team of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 CE ...

"The Crab Nebula lives up to a tradition in astronomy: The nearest, brightest, and best-studied objects tend to be bizarre." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured never-before-seen details of the Crab Nebula. The new image reveals ghostly tendrils and the dense core of an exploded star in exquisite detail. The Crab ...

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A little more than 969 years ago—on July 4, 1054, to be precise—light reached Earth from one of the universe's most energetic and violent events: a supernova, or an exploding star. We now know that ...

The date: July 4, 1054 AD. At dawn, astronomers in China, and half a world away in what is now the desert southwest of the United States — cave artists of the Anasazi and Mimbres Indian tribes — gazed ...