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The surroundings of the Crab Nebula

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This composite shows: 1) The constellation Taurus (lower left) photographed by the avid astrophotographer Akira Fujii. 2) A two-colour image (right) shows the surroundings of the Crab Nebula. It was composed from Digitized Sky Survey 2 images, and 3) The new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image (upper left) of the entire Crab Nebula in super high resolution.

Credit: Akira Fujii, Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) and NASA, ESA & Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

 

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Id:heic0515b
Object:Crab Nebula, M 1, NGC 1952, IRAS 05314+2200, Messier 1
Type:Nebula
Instru-ment:WFPC2, Ground-based
Width:5682
Height:3231

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