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Doris Elín Urrutia

Glimpse the Smoky Tendrils of the Crab Nebula's Zombie Heart

— NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University)

When Chinese astronomers first glimpsed the Crab Nebula in 1054 CE — they didn’t see anything like this. A new photo courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captures milky strands of material, known as synchrotron radiation, as it courses throughout the body of SN 1054 — a hat tip to the supernova remnant’s original discovery.

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