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 ...

The HubbleSpace Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, revealingthe intricate epitaph of a long-dead star. Astronomersin Japan and China witnessed the birth of the Crab ...

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’s magnetic field has been mapped in more detail than ever before. This churning mass of hot gas and dust is one of the best-studied cosmic objects, but this new map shows it is even ...

This multiwavelength image showcases many different details in the Crab Nebula. The remnant of a 1054 supernova, the Crab Nebula contains a large fraction of heavy elements and the process that ...

A little before sunrise on July 4, A.D. 1054, imperial astronomers of the Song Dynasty in China spotted an unknown star lighting up the eastern sky. “It’s as bright as Venus, with pointed rays in all ...