Crab Nebula (M1)
SUPERNOVA REMNANT · a star's spectacular end
In the year 1054, astronomers in China watched a new star blaze up, so bright that for weeks it was visible in daylight. It was a supernova, a massive star tearing itself apart. The Crab Nebula is the wreckage of that explosion, still racing outward today. In its heart spins a neutron star, flashing like a lighthouse thirty times every second.
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