| Nebula | … |
|---|---|
| Supernova remnant | … |
| Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image assembled from 24 individual Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 exposures taken in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000 | … |
| Observation data: J2000.0 epoch | … |
| Right ascension | 05 34 31.8 ICRS1 |
| Declination | +22° 01′ 03″ ICRS1 |
| Distance | 6500±1600 ly (2000±5002 pc) |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 8.43 |
| Apparent dimensions (V) | 420″ × 290″4 |
| Constellation | Taurus |
| Physical characteristics | … |
| Radius | ~5.5 ly (~1.75 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (V) | −3.1±0.5 |
| Notable features | Optical pulsar |
| Designations | Messier 1, NGC 1952, Taurus A, Sh2-2441 |
Crab Nebula
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Footnotes
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“M 1”. SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 7 May 2025. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Kaplan, David L.; et al. (2008). “A Precise Proper Motion for the Crab Pulsar, and the Difficulty of Testing Spin-Kick Alignment for Young Neutron Stars”. The Astrophysical Journal. 677 (2): 1201–1215. arXiv:0801.1142. Bibcode:2008ApJ…677.1201K. doi:10.1086/529026. S2CID 17840947. ↩
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“Messier 1”. SEDS Messier Catalog. Retrieved 21 July 2024. ↩
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Trimble, Virginia Louise (1973). “The Distance to the Crab Nebula and NP 0532”. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 85 (507): 579–585. Bibcode:1973PASP…85..579T. doi:10.1086/129507. JSTOR 40675440. S2CID 122277030. ↩
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Hester, J. J. (2008). “The Crab Nebula: An Astrophysical Chimera”. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 46: 127–155. Bibcode:2008ARA&A..46..127H. doi:10.1146/annurev.astro.45.051806.110608. ↩