IMAGE OF THE DAY
10-01-2024
Crab Nebula: The remains of a massive star explosionToday's Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features an incredible new image of the Crab Nebula in bright neon colors. “The unusual image was produced by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays,” noted ESA. Colored in red, the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) provided information about the nebula gathered in the radio regime. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope took infrared images, which appear yellow, while the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
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