Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

Today, at the heart of the Crab Nebula, remains an incredibly rapidly rotating neutron star that sweeps two narrow radio beams across the Earth each time it spins.

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that appeared in 1054. "Historical records, including Chinese accounts, describe an unusually bright star appearing in the sky," said the KU researcher.

The Crab Nebula is first on his list and is therefore known as M (Messier) 1. The moniker "Crab Nebula" came about from an 1844 sketch of it made by the English astronomer, the third Earl of Rosse.

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos.

The neutron star at the very center of the Crab Nebula has about the same mass as the sun but compressed into an incredibly dense sphere that is only a few miles across. Spinning 30 times a second ...

"The emission, which resembles a lighthouse beam, repeatedly sweeps past Earth as the star rotates," Mikhail Medvedev, lead author of the research, said in a statement. "We observe this as a ...

Astronomers picked out wispy never-before-seen features of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of an exploded star, using the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos.

A neutron star, like the one in the center of the Crab Nebula, forms when a star roughly eight to 20 times the mass of the Sun runs out of hydrogen in its core. This triggers the beginning of the end.

Astronomers calculate that a star 9 to 11 times more massive than the sun 6,500 light-years from Earth ran out of fuel. Without the pressure and heat in its core to resist the force of gravity ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 ...