X-Rays | New View Of The Crab Nebula

Now I find things like this interesting




















The old view of the Crab Nebula. Beautiful No?
















New view
X-Rayed, showing energy winds from the pulsar inside the Nebula.

"the size of a city with more mass than the Sun and the density of an atomic nucleus, the spinning pulsar itself is the collapsed core of a massive star. The stellar core collapse resulted in a supernova explosion that was witnessed in the year 1054. This Chandra image spans just under 9 light-years at the Crab's estimated distance of 6,000 light-years.. The pulsar's energy accelerates charged particles and, strange shapes are created as the charged particles stream away, eventually losing energy as they interact with the pulsar's strong magnetic field.."

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