The Crab Nebula (Messier Object 1)
I acquired this image over three nights, battling mount and tracking issues. Nonetheless, the image turned out well and I was able to salvage about 10hrs of data of 3min sub exposures. The color is close to true color. This super nova remnant is full of bright colors because of the various elements now irradiated by the left over pulsar (spinning nuetron star).
Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes:
https://youtu.be/udFxKZRyQt4"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... 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 constellation Taurus." - NASA
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