X-ray and Optical Images of Crab Nebula

The visible, infrared, and X-ray vision of NASA's Great Observatories have been combined to create a three-dimensional representation of the Crab Nebula (view the visualization here). The visualization is based on images of the Crab Nebula from the IXPE. Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, as pictured above, and dissects the intricate nested structure that makes up the stellar corpse. The Crab Pulsar is a famous astronomical object, about 6,500 light-years from Earth, that originated with the explosion of a massive star. The nebula around the Crab contains a donut-shaped magnetic field, which NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observed. Learn More: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/historic-nebula-seen-like-never-before-with-nasas-ixpe-2/