Located 6,500 light-years away, the Crab Nebula is famous among astronomers for its elaborate and beautiful structure.
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows off the gorgeous nebula as seen in the infrared wavelength, highlighting the filaments of dust that create its cage-like shape.
The nebula has previously been imaged by other telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope which looks primarily in the optical wavelength and, more recently, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer observatory which looks in the X-ray wavelength. These results have been combined into a previous image showing the nebula in optical, infrared, and X-ray.
Related The nebula is being studied to learn about how it formed from the supernova event, which threw out clouds of material when the star exploded.
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