Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
The Crab Nebula from CFHT
Explanation:
This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula [ http://www.seds.org…], the result of a supernova [ http://imagine.gsfc…] seen in 1054 AD [ http://www.seds.org…], is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled [ http://adsabs.harva…] in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected [ http://adsabs.harva…] from a free explosion. The above image [ http://www.cfht.haw…], taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope [ http://www.cfht.haw…] (CFHT), is in three colors chosen for scientific interest. The Crab Nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] spans about 10 light-years [ http://starchild.gs…]. In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar [ http://www.jb.man.a…]: a neutron star [ http://www.astro.um…] as massive as the Sun [ http://www.nineplan…] but with only the size of a small town [ http://www.cityofho…]. The Crab Pulsar [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] rotates about 30 times each second.
Credit and Copyright:
//www.cfht.hawaii.ed u/HawaiianStarlight/ CFHT_WWW_Copyright.h tml" >Copyright: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope [ http://www.cfht.haw…], J.-C. Cuillandre [ mailto:jcc at cfht.hawaii.edu ] (CFHT [ http://www.cfht.haw…]), Coelum [ http://www.cfht.haw…]
facet_where:
Hawaii
facet_where:
Canada
facet_where:
France
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
nebula
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap040128
Image ID:
105737
Resolution Size:
3
Format:
JPEG
Media Type:
Image
File Name:
crab_cfht.jpg
Width:
650
Height:
496

The Crab Nebula from CFHT

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