A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

Less than a hundred years later, Arabic and Chinese astronomers marveled at a supernova that created the Crab Nebula. Since then, thousands more have been identified and described in surveys like ...

This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different structural details of the Crab Nebula. The supernova remnant ...

Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...

ABSTRACT Published images of the Crab Nebula have been scanned and measured to derive proper ... with a 53 yr baseline projected backward indicates the mean date of the supernova event as a.d. 1130 ± ...

Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...

They include M1, also known as the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that has provided new insight into what happens when a star dies; and C39, the Clown Nebula, which holds layers of gas expelled ...