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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Crab Nebula

The Crab Nebula was observed by Earth as a supernova in 1054 A.D. Almost a thousand years later we see it as a super dense neutron star.

This image is actually a composite of images taken from the Hubble Telescope (red and yellow), the Chandra Observatory (blue) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (purple).


http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/graphics/high_definition_graphics/0005/7585/sig09-009_Ti.jpg?1274406448

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