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English: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope dissected the Crab Nebula’s structure, aiding astronomers as they continue to evaluate leading theories about the supernova remnant’s origins. With the data collected by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), a team of scientists were able to closely inspect some of the Crab Nebula’s major components.
For the first time ever, astronomers mapped the warm dust emission throughout this supernova remnant. Represented as fluffy magenta material, the dust grains form a cage-like structure that is most apparent toward the lower left and upper right portions of the remnant. Filaments of dust are also threaded throughout the Crab’s interior and sometimes coincide with regions of doubly ionized sulfur (sulfur III) colored in green. Yellow-white mottled filaments, which form large loop-like structures around the supernova remnant’s center, represent areas where dust and doubly ionized sulfur overlap. The dust’s cage-like structure helps constrain some, but not all of the ghostly synchrotron emission represented in blue. The emission resembles wisps of smoke, most notable toward the Crab’s center. The thin blue ribbons follow the magnetic field lines created by the Crab’s pulsar heart — a rapidly rotating neutron star. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Tea Temim (Princeton University) |
Date | 17 June 2024 (upload date) |
Source | Crab Nebula |
Author | Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Tea Temim (Princeton University) |
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Keywords InfoField | Neutron Stars; Emission Nebulas; Nebulas; Pulsars; Supernova Remnants |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag. |
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Author | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach |
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Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA, CSA, Tea Temim (Princeton); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) |
Headline | New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. |
Source | STScI |
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Date and time of data generation | 17 June 2024 |
Color space | sRGB |
Exif version | 2.31 |
Image width | 2,958 px |
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Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 71.98 dpi |
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Contact information | outreach@stsci.edu
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Keywords | Crab Nebula |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:56, 11 June 2024 |
Unique ID of original document | 02B4547F61F2037859500F729B468595 |
File change date and time | 09:57, 11 June 2024 |