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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2023 November 9   
      
                                M1: The Crab Nebula   
       Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Tea Temim (Princeton University)   
      
      Explanation: The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on   
      Charles Messier's famous 18th century list of things which are not   
      comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant,   
      debris from the death explosion of a massive star witnessed by   
      astronomers in the year 1054. This sharp image from the James Webb   
      Space TelescopeCÇÖs NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared   
      Instrument) explores the eerie glow and fragmented strands of the still   
      expanding cloud of interstellar debris in infrared light. One of the   
      most exotic objects known to modern astronomers, the Crab Pulsar, a   
      neutron star spinning 30 times a second, is visible as a bright spot   
      near the nebula's center. Like a cosmic dynamo, this collapsed remnant   
      of the stellar core powers the Crab's emission across the   
      electromagnetic spectrum. Spanning about 12 light-years, the Crab   
      Nebula is a mere 6,500 light-years away in the head-strong   
      constellation Taurus.   
      
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