Friday, October 27, 2006

Crab Nebula


This is a remnant of a supernova. An interesting little guy, this is part of the constellation Taurus, which we have not studied yet. This image was composed with X-Rays from 3 different space telescopes- Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer. The bright spot in the center is known as the Crap Pulsar, a neutron star spinning at 30 TIMES A SECOND! WHOA.

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