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Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
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Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory. And, in between that range of wavelengths, the Hubble Space Telescope's crisp visible-light view, and the infrared perspective of the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Credit lineObservatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000053.
