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Crab Nebula
Palomar, PRC96-22a, ST Sci OPO, May 30, 1996,
J.Hester and P.Scowen (AZ State Univ.) and NASA
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For
millions of years a star shined in the far off constellation of Taurus. So far away, and so faint
that even if our eyes were ten thousand times more sensitive, the star would
still not be visible to us on the Earth. Then one day, in a few seconds, all that
changed. An explosion beyond belief in its intensity lit up the heavens; it still
shines, almost one thousand years later....
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