The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest supernova remnants in the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Crab ...

The Crab Nebula is first on his list and is therefore known as M (Messier) 1. The moniker "Crab Nebula" came about from an 1844 sketch of it made by the English astronomer, the third Earl of Rosse.

THE existence of a source in the Crab Nebula with an angular diameter of less than 1 sec of arc has been revealed by observations of interplanetary scintillation at a frequency of 38 Mc/s (ref. 1).

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its attention toward the Crab Nebula (M1) and revealed “exquisite, never-before-seen details” in this image released Oct. 30. Tea Temim and team at ...

To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you'll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently risen high enough above the east-northeast horizon.

The Crab Nebula as you've never seen it before: Stunning images by NASA's James Webb telescope offer a new look at 1,000-year-old supernova so bright it was visible from Earth in 1054.

On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab Nebula, a bright cosmic object 6,500 light-years away.