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High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)

High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)
Date taken Thu Jan 01 1959 Authorship NASA's MSFC centre Keywords & Keyphrases Crab Nebula · Hale Observatory Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This image is of the Crab Nebula in visible light photographed by the Hale Observatory optical telescope in 1959. The faint object at the center had been identified as a pulsar and is thought to be the remains of the original star. It had been observed as a pulsar in visible light, radio wave, x-rays, and gamma-rays.