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We Capture the Crab Nebula

Exhibit display board from the Gavin Middle School, featuring MicroObservatory and NASA images of an exploded star.

 

MicroObservatory (upper right): sees gas that used to part of the massive star

 

The Hubble Space Telescope (left): sees more details in the glowing gas of the nebula

 

The Chandra X-ray Telescope (lower right): sees the spinning pulsar at the heart of the nebula

 

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Uploaded on August 19, 2009
Taken on May 16, 2007