Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb

New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASAs James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. With the telescopes MIRI Mid-Infrared Instrument and NIRCam Near-Infrared Camera, the team gathered data that is . https://science.nasa.gov/m...
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