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    Crab Nebula - Wikipedia
    Right ascension05ʰ 34ᵐ 31.94ˢ
    Declination+22° 00′ 52.2″
    Distance6500±1600 ly (2000±500 pc)
    Apparent magnitude (V)8.4
    Hubble’s Inside The Image: Crab Nebula
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    Hubble’s Inside The Image: Crab Nebula
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    The Incredible Crab Nebula
    The Incredible Crab Nebula
    What do you get when a massive star explodes and leaves behind a spinning neutron star and a cloud of gas and dust? You get the Crab Nebula, a cosmic wonder in the constellation of Taurus.
    Observational history

    The earliest recorded documentation of observation of astronomical object SN 1054 was as it was occurring in 1054, by Chinese astrononomers and Japanese observers, hence its numerical identificatio… See more

    Physical parameters

    In visible light, the Crab Nebula consists of a broadly oval-shaped mass of filaments, about 6 arcminutes long and 4 arcminutes wide (by comparison, the full moon is 30 arcminutes across) surrounding a diffuse blue centra… See more

    Central star

    At the center of the Crab Nebula are two faint stars, one of which is the star responsible for the existence of the nebula. It was identified as such in 1942, when Rudolf Minkowski found that its optical spectrum w… See more

    Progenitor star

    The star that exploded as a supernova is referred to as the supernova's progenitor star. Two types of stars explode as supernovae: white dwarfs and massive stars. In the so-called Type Ia supernovae, gases falling onto … See more

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