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Most Detailed Image of the Crab Nebula

Most Detailed Image of the Crab Nebula
Date taken Thu Dec 01 2005 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Crab Nebula · Hubble Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope