Crab Nebula
At a glance
- Type
- Nebula
- Distance
- Milky Way
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Multicoloured
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- The Crab Nebula is the leftover of a star explosion that Chinese astronomers saw in 1054.
- At the heart of the Crab Nebula spins a dead star, a pulsar, turning about 30 times every second.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q10934 · All space objects · All entries