The Crab Pulsar is seen as a bright spot within the nebula. It sits inside the gaseous swirl at the nebula’s core.

The pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula is a neutron star that spins around about 30 times a second. It was created from a supernova explosion in our galaxy that was observed by astronomers in ...

Researchers hope that by further probing the mysterious object, MSH 15-52, they can learn how this type of event creates high ...

These new infrared images reveal new aspects of the Crab Nebula that optical images from Hubble in 2005 couldn’t disclose, including dust grain emissions in the center portions of the nebula, gaseous ...

In the case of the Crab Nebula pulsar, located in the constellation Taurus, some 6,300 light years from Earth, the numbers boggle the mind: Plasma clouds in the pulsar’s atmosphere send out the ...

The Crab Pulsar — a spinning neutron star with jets of radiation spewing from its poles — lies at the nebula's center, surrounded by gas, shock waves, powerful magnetic fields and high-energy ...

The pulsar in the Crab Nebula could be as much as hundreds of times more energetic than researchers previously believed, according to a study published last week in the journal Science.

The nebula continues to expand over time as wind created by the spinning pulsar pushes the interior gas and dust outward.

This enabled scientists to investigate not just X-rays from the Crab Nebula but also those coming from the pulsar itself, or the sphere of magnetic fields around it.

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant about 6,500 light-years away from Earth. We can trace its history precisely, thanks to observations made by Chinese, Japanese, and Middle Eastern astronomers ...

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos.

To locate the Crab Nebula's pulsar heart, trace the wisps that follow a circular ripple-like pattern in the middle to the bright white dot in the center.