By Amira Shehata
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 08:00 p.m
Detection telescope James Webb A NASA space probe revealed the Crab Nebula, a remnant of a stellar explosion that lit up the sky about 1,000 years ago, and is bright enough to be seen from Earth 6,500 light-years away.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, D. from Princeton University. Dimim said: “The sensitivity and spatial accuracy of the web allows accurate determination of the composition of the ejected material, especially the iron and nickel content, which can reveal the type of explosion that produced the Crab Nebula.”
A team is searching for answers to the Crab Nebula’s origin, and to find the Crab Nebula’s “pulsar heart” in the image, NASA said, viewers must “follow wisps that follow a circular, ripple-like pattern.” Amid the bright white dot in the center.”
“Far from the center, follow thin white ribbons of radiation,” the space agency further explained, “sinusoidal filaments clustered closely together, illustrating the structure of the pulsar’s magnetic field, which sculpts and shapes the nebula.”
James Webb was not the first telescope to capture an image of the Crab Nebula; So did NASA’s famous Hubble Space Telescope in 2005.
However, because the web can see in infrared, it provides an unprecedented “clear” view of the starburst in exquisite detail.
“In central regions, dust grains (yellow, white and green) emissions have been mapped by the web for the first time,” NASA said.
More aspects of the Crab Nebula’s inner workings have become clear and can be seen in more detail in infrared light captured by Webb.
It’s about 6,500 light-years from Earth, 11 light-years across, and expanding at 930 miles per second.
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