Back to Article List The Crab Nebula, as we’ve never seen it before JWST gives us a never-before-seen look at the Crab Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas left over from a massive star's death.

That's why the Crab Nebula is also known as Messier 1 (M1). More importantly, the supernova that created the nebula wowed societies across the planet when it appeared in Earth's skies centuries ago.

Astronomersin Japan and China witnessed the birth of the Crab Nebulain 1054, when a star 6,500 light-years from Earth exploded in a brilliantsupernova. [Click here to view animation of the nebula ...

This composite image of the Crab Nebula was assembled with arbitrary color scaling by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum: the radio emission ...

After that, the surviving pair of white dwarfs will illuminate a shell of gas called a planetary nebula. This is just one of many images made possible by the venerable Hubble, which launched into ...

There will be yet more data about the Crab Nebula coming soon, as Hubble has also recently re-imaged the object for the first time since it took its original observations in 1999 and 2000.

The Crab Nebula, the dusty remains of an exploded star, has unleashed a surprisingly massive flare that is five times more powerful than any eruption previously seen from the celestial object ...