Scientists have mapped the iconic Crab Nebula's magnetic field in greater detail than ever before using NASA's latest X-ray telescope. Located 6,500 light-years from Earth, the Crab Nebula is the ...

The hauntingly beautiful Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away ... that are accompanied by X-ray surges. A global team of scientists made the discovery using data from NASA’s NICER ...

Weisskopf and colleagues were hoping to understand this extreme environment in a new way by measuring the polarization of X-rays from the Crab Nebula, which shines brightly in X-rays. X-ray ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided the ...

Without combining X-ray, infrared and visible light, you don't get the full picture." The pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula contains certain structures and processes that generate particular ...

Over 2 decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory views of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A have been time-lapsed. The Chandra team explains here. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart 'SNL' Casts Trump Family in ...

Located 6,500 light-years away, the Crab Nebula is famous among ... combined into a previous image showing the nebula in optical, infrared, and X-ray. The new Webb image, however, shows different ...

A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). Chandra has repeatedly observed ...

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have been combined to reveal how the Crab Nebula's neutron star is changing. When you purchase through links on our ...

This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in dark purple. Credits: X-ray (IXPE ...