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Photographer:
Jon Greif
Location of Photo:
Sliding Springs Observatory, NSW Australia.
Date/Time of photo:
14 January 2016 at 2 AM local time
Equipment:
150 mm Takahashi Color imaging platform via itelescope.net with post-processing on GIMP.
Description:
The Crab Nebula (Messier 1), located 6500 light years from Earth, in the constellation Taurus, is the remnant of a supernova, a star which exploded, creating a very bright light as it ejected mass. The likely spectacular event was described by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054 AD, the first documentation of a Supernova.
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