A pulsar was found in the center of the Crab in 1968. This rapidly rotating neutron star is the core of the star that went supernova to make the nebula. In the intervening decades, x-ray ...

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 ...

The pulsar in the Crab Nebula spins 30 times per second and produces the glow seen in the center of images of the nebula. The Crab Nebula is about 10 light-years across, the equivalent of about 10 ...

The new data provides insights into the pulsar wind, dusty filaments, and the elemental composition of the nebula. The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the sky, with over 30,000 ...

It's the heart of the Crab Nebula, called the Crab Pulsar. About 1,000 years ago, astronomers recorded a supermassive star going supernova — exploding and spewing its blazing hot guts into space.

The radiation appears here as milky smoke-like material throughout the majority of the Crab Nebula’s interior. This feature is a product of the nebula’s pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star.

NASA said that to find the Crab Nebula's 'pulsar heart' in the image, viewers should 'trace the wisps that follow a circular ripple-like pattern in the middle to the bright white dot in the centre'.

The specific pulsar I’m discussing is known as the Crab Pulsar, located in the center of the Crab Nebula 6,000 light-years away from us." Related: A star exploded almost 1000 years ago and left ...

The Crab Nebula is powered by a quickly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star called a pulsar, which was formed when a massive star ran out of its nuclear fuel and collapsed. The combination of ...

The Crab pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star, the collapsed core of a massive star that exploded in a spectacular supernova in the year 1054, leaving behind the brilliant Crab Nebula, with the ...

The radiation from the pulsar itself also appeared to be almost completely unpolarised, which was unexpected. Researchers knew that the Crab nebula was complex, but it seems to be even more ...

IXPE data show that the Crab Nebula’s magnetic field resembles that of the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula, which is also donut-shaped. But at the Crab, scientists were surprised that areas of magnetic ...