I spent over a month capturing images of Messier 1 to compare it to Hubble’s 1999 image and Walter Baade’s 1950 image. By doing so, you can see how much the nebula has expanded in the last 75 years.
I spent over a month capturing images of Messier 1 to compare it to Hubble’s 1999 image and Walter Baade’s 1950 image. By doing so, you can see how much the nebula has expanded in the last 75 years.
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This is really cool. Do we have any sense of distance that the plume has expanded and at what speed?
This is pretty great, but also it’s “over”, not “in”, and *so many folks* are going to ignore this over a basic English error
In case some don’t know, the star that exploded to create the [Crab Nebula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula), exploded nearly 1,000 years ago (year 1054) and was seen and recorded by people of several societies. Astronomers have sketched it from time to time and it’s very well studied.
Oooh look it’s the crap nebula
Great job with this project, amazing to watch things change through expansion.
You’d be shocked to know how much it’s expanded in 1000 years! I actively study the crab, it’s a neat source.
So this is what happens when a black hole chokes while eating and coughs up food?
Amazing ! I’ve always wanted to see something like this! Would be so cool to see a time lapse of a million more years!