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The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion that was seen on Earth in 1054 AD. It is 6000 light years from Earth.

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Description	English: The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion that was seen on Earth in 1054 AD. It is 6000 light years from Earth. At the center of the bright nebula is a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar that emits pulses of radiation 30 times a second.
Date	28 September 1999 (upload date)
Source	Crab Nebula: Chandra Discovers X-Ray Ring Around Cosmic Powerhouse in Crab Nebula
Author	2MASS/UMass/IPAC- Caltech/NASA/NSF

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Credit/Provider	NASA/CXC/SAO
Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Headline	A supernova remnant and pulsar in the constellation of Taurus.
Short title	Chandra Discovers X-Ray Ring Around Cosmic Powerhouse in Crab Nebula
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Image title	The explosion was seen on Earth in 1054 AD. At the center of the nebula is a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar that emits pulses of radiation 30 times a second. The image shows the central pulsar surrounded by tilted rings of high-energy particles that appear to have been flung outward over a distance of more than a light year from the pulsar. Perpendicular to the rings, jet-like structures produced by high-energy particles blast away from the pulsar. The diameter of the inner ring in the image is about one light year, more than 1000 times the diameter of our solar system. The X rays from the Crab nebula are produced by high-energy particles spiraling around magnetic field lines in the Nebula. The bell-shaped appearance of the Nebula could be due to the way this huge magnetized bubble was produced or to its interaction with clouds of gas and dust in the vicinity.
Copyright holder	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	28 September 1999
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
File change date and time	12:27, 13 October 2004
Color space	sRGB
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Image height	572 px
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Height	572 px
Pixel composition	RGB
Number of components	3
Bits per component	8 8 8
Date and time of digitizing	07:27, 13 October 2004
Date metadata was last modified	05:18, 17 November 2010
Keywords	Crab Nebula
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
IIM version	2

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