The Pulsar in the Crab Nebula
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 25 August 2022
This is an arresting image from Astronomy Picture of the Day for 21/8/22. It’s of the area surrounding the Crab Pulsar, a spinning neutron star at the centre of the picture and is the remanants of a supernova witnessed on Earth in 1054.
The image combines visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope, X-ray light from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and infra-red light from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The neutron star spins 30 times a second.
Tags: APOD, Astronomy, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, The Crab Nebula
