Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar

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esahubble_opo0224a September 19th, 2002

Credit: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al., HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.

Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0224a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Crab Pulsar
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Neutron Star > Pulsar
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Position Details Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 5h 34m 31.6s
DEC = 22° 0’ 57.9”
Orientation
North is 0.1° CW
Field of View
2.1 x 2.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Taurus

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Optical -
Blue Chandra (ACIS) X-ray -
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ID
opo0224a
Subject Category
B.3.1.9.1  
Subject Name
Crab Pulsar
Credits
NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al., HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.
Release Date
2002-09-19T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0224a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra
Instrument
WFPC2, ACIS
Color Assignment
Red, Blue
Band
Optical, X-ray
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
83.6316928, 22.0160749
Reference Dimension
2400.0, 2400.0
Reference Pixel
1201.0, 1201.0
Scale
1.49343265741e-05, 1.49001952049e-05
Rotation
-0.1
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
WCS info from NASA/Hubble
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo0224a
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0224a.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:21:46+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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