Tag: Crab

The Great Crab Nebula Superflare

There are strange goings-on in the Crab Nebula. On April 12, 2011, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the most powerful in a series of gamma-ray flares occurring somewhere within …
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Chandra Monitors the Flaring Crab

Scientists hoped that NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory would locate X-ray sources correlated to the gamma-ray flares seen by Fermi and Italy’s AGILE satellites. Two observations were made during the April …
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Composite View of the Crab Nebula

This video starts with a composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the …
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