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Beautiful Demise

Featured on October 31, 2023

A new image from Webb Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the aftermath of the explosion of a massive star. The star exploded roughly 1,000 years ago as a supernova. Today, it consists of a tiny, massive corpse known as a neutron star, plus an expanding cloud of gas and dust, which forms the nebula. The filaments in the nebula point back toward the neutron star. They formed as the blast wave rammed into denser clumps of material expelled by the star before the final explosion. [NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/T. Temim (Princeton University)]

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