Webb Telescope’s Jaw-Dropping New Images Of The Crab Nebula

2023-10-30 08:32 PM by Jessica Irvine

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula in the search for answers about the … [+] supernova remnant’s origins. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have revealed new details in infrared light. Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, T. Temi The James Webb Space Telescope has returned spectacular new images of …

The famed Crab Nebula observed through X-rays by NASA’s IXPE

2023-05-11 10:12 AM by Alex Smith

A new perspective on the Crab Nebula, one of astronomy’s most beautiful creations, has been provided by a NASA X-ray instrument. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory was launched in December 2021 and is presently orbiting Earth, observing X-ray sources like black holes and pulsars from space. Despite being an essential tool for scientists …