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M1: Crab Nebula
Supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. This is the first entry in Charles Messier's "Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters."
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Crab Nebula (2006) - False color image using data from Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer. Blue-purple=x-rays, green=optical, red=infrared.
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The Incredible Expanding Crab
Animation flips between 2 images of the Crab Nebula taken almost 30 years apart - 1973 and 2001. -
M1: The Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (animation)
Color animation flipping back and forth between two images - one taken in 1999 and the other in 2012.
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I'm convinced that we use false color not so much to convey a better understanding of the makeup of intergalactic objects, but to paint beautiful paintings. This is gorgeous.