10.
Most detailed image
of the Crab Nebula
This Hubble image - among the largest ever produced with the Earth-orbiting
observatory - gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The
Crab is among the most interesting and well studied objects in astronomy.
This image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble’s WFPC2 camera. It
was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the telescope and is
the highest resolution image of the entire Crab Nebula ever made.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)
“Hubble joined up a thousand years of
astronomy, from the discovery of the supernova
in 1054 that produced the Crab pulsar to the
extraordinarily detailed images of its remnant
taken with WFPC2 in 1999/2000.”
— Dr. Boris Gänsicke
Professor in the Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Coventry, United Kingdom