The birth of a new star seen in 1054, bright enough to dazzle humanity and visible for 20 days. An incredible cosmic event ...

Explore 6 of the most breathtaking space pictures captured by NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the universe's wonders.

Abell 2218 (Image: NASA)) Hubble’s mosaic shows the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide supernova remnant observed in 1054 by Japanese, Chinese, and likely Native American astronomers.

Crab Nebula: NASA's Chandra X-Ray Laboratory released this composite of the Crab Nebula with data from Chandra (blue and white), Hubble (purple), and Spitzer (pink). 14 Feb, 2025 Gazi Abbas Shahid ...

This composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant in the Milky Way, was captured by the Herschel and Hubble Space Telescopes.

Over 2 decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory views of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A have been time-lapsed. The Chandra team explains here. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

The Crab Nebula is located in the constellation Taurus, and in 1054 CE, its star went supernova. Amazingly, the resulting explosion caught the attention of Chinese astronomers during the Song ...

JWST's new image displaces one from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005 as the best picture scientists have of the Crab Nebula. JWST's 6.5-meter (21.3 feet) mirror has six times more collecting ...

The European Space Agency has a tool on its website, esawebb.org, that lets you shift views between the Hubble and JWST images of the nebula, and you can easily see the material moving outward.) ...

A comparison of the Crab Nebula, seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right). Hubble image: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A Loll (Arizona State University).

These new infrared images reveal new aspects of the Crab Nebula that optical images from Hubble in 2005 couldn’t disclose, including dust grain emissions in the center portions of the nebula, gaseous ...