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Crab Nebula

A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object known as a neutron star has been left behind by the explosion. It spews out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. This composite image was assembled from three sources. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in blue, the Spitzer Space Telescope optical image is in red and yellow, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image is in purple.