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.

Okay, this is false colour. But it’s still stunning.

From Astronomy Picture of the Day, for 17/3/18 (and The Daily Galaxy, 18/3/18.)

The Crab Nebula in X-ray, infra-red and visible light:-