Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its center sits a dense, rapidly spinning neutron star that turns every 33.8 ...

The James Webb Telescope — the super-sensitive, tennis-court-sized, space-based imager jointly managed by several international space agencies — continued to deliver gorgeous shots of the cosmos in ...

Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. The Crab Nebula ...

It was the Crab Nebula's resemblance to a telescopic comet that prompted Charles Messier to compile his celebrated catalogue of such fuzzy objects so that they might not deceive other comet hunters.

A pulsar's radiation is getting refracted by plasma in the magnetosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

Whether you’re a life long stargazer, or you’ve just made a spontaneous Black Friday purchase, NASA is offering you a guided tour of the cosmos in 2025. To celebrate 35 years of Hubble’s observations, ...

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The year 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory into space. The Crab Nebula was one of the first objects that Chandra examined with its sharp X-ray vision, ...