Crab Nebula
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A supernova remnant that astronomers dubbed the Crab Nebula is the only remaining trace of a huge stellar explosion that observers on the ground in China and Japan chronicled in 1054.

March 16, 2013 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University),NASA

| Caption by: Charles Cooper

 

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