The Crab Nebula, one of the most studied remnants of a supernova explosion observed nearly a thousand years ago, has been revisited by the Hubble Space Telescope. In a recent study available on ArXiv, ...
A massive star exploded in 1054. The explosion was seen by astronomers across the globe. The explosion was visible for over a year, even during the day. The remnants of this explosion are now known as ...
The date: July 4, 1054 AD. At dawn, astronomers in China, and half a world away in what is now the desert southwest of the United States — cave artists of the Anasazi and Mimbres Indian tribes — gazed ...
The Crab Nebula (M1) has one of the most famous origin stories around: The light from the supernova that created the nebula was recorded by ancient astronomers when it appeared as a “guest star” in ...