Crab Nebula seen in different wavelength
This video starts with a composite image of the Crab Nebula. The image was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum: the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s XMM-Newton Observatory, and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The video dissolves to the red-coloured radio wavelength view that shows how the neutron star’s fierce wind of charged particles energise the nebula, causing it to emit radio waves. The yellow-coloured infrared image includes the glow of dust particles absorbing ultraviolet and visible light. The green-coloured Hubble visible-light image offers a very sharp view of hot filamentary structures that permeate this nebula. The blue-coloured ultraviolet image and the purple-coloured X-ray image show the effect of an energetic cloud of electrons driven by a rapidly rotating neutron star at the centre of the nebula.
Credit:NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale (STScI)
About the Video
Id: | potw1720a |
Release date: | 15 May 2017, 06:00 |
Duration: | 30 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Name: | Crab Nebula |
Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Neutron Star : Pulsar |
Category: | Nebulae |