The Crab Nebula: A Cosmic Icon

Da **GIANLUCA1989** il Mer Nov 25, 2009 1:41 pm

A star's death was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Almost a thousand years later, a neutron star left behind by the explosion spews out high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula.
Read more : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-096.html

L'immagine del Chandra X-ray è in blu, del Hubble Space Telescope(ottico) è in giallo e rosso, e dello Spitzer Space Telescope (infrarosso) è in viola.

Credits photo: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/F.Seward; Optical: NASA/ESA/ASU/J.Hester & A.Loll; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Minn./R.Gehrz