Crab Nebula Medium:Canvas 500 light-years away

500 light-years away

smaller than a 1 mm2 piece of paper held 1 m away

it is a hit

The resulting huge concentration of young stars carved into the gas and dust at the galaxy's center

Crab Nebula Medium:Canvas 500 light-years awayIn chronicles from 1054 AD Japanese and Chinese observers were described a very bright object on the night sky in the constellation of Taurus which disappeared a few months later. It was a supernova explosion that remnant expanding nebula, now known as the Crab Nebula or Messier 1. The glowing relic has been expanding since the star exploded, and it is now approximately 11 light years in width. This Hubble mosaic is one of the largest images ever