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.

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.

A neutron star is the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star. The Crab Nebula derived its name from its appearance in a drawing made by Irish astronomer Lord Rosse in 1844, using a 36-inch ...

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

These new infrared images reveal new aspects of the Crab Nebula that optical images from Hubble in 2005 couldn’t disclose, including dust grain emissions in the center portions of the nebula, gaseous ...

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.

"6,500 light-years away lies the Crab Nebula, the remains of an exploded star. While it is a well-studied target, Webb’s infrared sensitivity and resolution offer new clues into the makeup and ...

This star spins 30 times a second and is considered to be one of the brightest pulsars emitting light in X-rays and radio wavelengths that is visible in our sky.

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 has taken to its website to showcase the new image from Webb, explaining the world's most powerful space telescope has imaged the Crab Nebula, the remains of a star that suffered its end-of ...

Astronomers in China, Japan and the Middle East first spotted the “crab” in the night sky in 1054, recording their observations of what they believed to be a new star. Later, it was determined ...