Watching 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula With the Hubble

The Hubble imaged the historic Crab Nebula almost 25 years ago and captured one of the most famous images in astronomy. Now, the telescope has revisited the supernova remnant. The goal was to track how the nebula has expanded and changed. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, William Blair (JHU); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it has evolved over Hubble’s long lifetime. A paper detailing the new Hubble observation was published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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