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The Crab

25 August 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hes­ter and A. Loll (Ari­zona State University)

In the year 1054, Japan­ese, Chi­nese and Native Amer­i­can astronomers recorded a vio­lent event. They saw a star that hadn’t been there before. It turned out to be a super­nova that formed the Crab Neb­ula and it’s one of the ear­li­est recorded astro­nom­i­cal events by humans.

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