Zoom into The Crab Nebula: Detailed View | Hubble

Zoom into The Crab Nebula: Detailed View | Hubble

This video zooms in on a detailed Crab Nebula image—one of the largest ever taken with Hubble's WFPC2 camera. It was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and was the highest resolution image of the entire Crab Nebula ever made in 2005.

Distance: 6,500 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and G. Bacon of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Release Date: December 31, 2014

Duration: 30 seconds

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