A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). Chandra has repeatedly observed ...

More A new photo of the Crab Nebula, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, is helping scientists parse the composition and history of the ancient supernova remnant.

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.

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula.

NASA's top five images from space include AG Carinae, the Crab Nebula with X-rays, the Andromeda galaxy in infrared, and Cassiopeia, a supernova remnant showing elemental gases.

Scientists have mapped the iconic Crab Nebula's magnetic field in greater detail than ever before using NASA's latest X-ray telescope.

Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. The Crab Nebula ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 ...

New models of the Crab nebula will have to take these X-ray measurements into account – and new observations will be needed to try to explain the turmoil at the heart of the nebula.

A NASA X-ray instrument has provided a new view of one of astronomy's most beautiful objects, the Crab Nebula.

A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). Chandra has repeatedly observed ...