(Neither Titan nor the Crab Nebula are visible to the unaided eye, but with a dark sky and cooperative weather, you can find them with binoculars.) The explosion stripped off the star's outer ...
We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...
The Crab Nebula is a remnant of a supernova explosion. All the new Chandra images are gorgeous. The Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion, is another well-known formation. The Chandra ...
Ejecta: The material expelled during a supernova explosion. Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN): A nebula formed by the wind of a pulsar, which is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams ...