The surroundings of the Crab Nebula
Date: 04 December 2005
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Messier 1, Crab Nebula
Copyright: Akira Fujii, Davide De Martin (http://www.skyfactory.org) and NASA, ESA & Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)
This composite shows:
- The constellation Taurus (lower left) photographed by the avid astrophotographer Akira Fujii
- A two-colour image (right) shows the surroundings of the Crab Nebula. It was composed from Digitized Sky Survey 2 images, and
- The new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image (upper left) of the entire Crab Nebula in super high resolution
Last Update: 1 September 2019
