A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual "zebra" pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the ...

A SEARCH for X-ray emission from galactic objects on April 29, 1963, disclosed two localized sources, one of which appeared in Scorpius and the other in the direction of the Crab Nebula.

This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different structural details of the Crab Nebula. The supernova remnant ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/316199 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/316199 ABSTRACT Published images of the Crab Nebula have been scanned and measured to derive ...

and the stellar core—now a neutron star—lies in the center of the nebula. In the 1920s, astronomers like Edwin Hubble noticed that the Crab Nebula was getting bigger in photos of the night sky.