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The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion that was seen on Earth in 1054 AD. It is 6000 light years from Earth. At the center of the bright nebula is a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar that emits pulses of radiation 30 times a second.

Multi-wavelength Images: (*Images not to scale)
X-ray NASA/CXC/SAO Jpg (133 k) Tiff (3.9 MB) PS (3.4 MB)	Optical Palomar Obs.: Jpg (93 k) Tif (3.6 MB) PS (495 k)	Infrared 2MASS/UMass/IPAC- Caltech/NASA/NSF: Jpg (231 k) Tif (18.7 MB) PS (3.5 MB)	Radio NRAO/AUI/NSF: Jpg (42 k) Tif (1.7 MB) PS (3.6 MB)

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