What if we will soon have the chance to jump into a spaceship and go all the way to the Crab Nebula? If it will ever be possible, it means the best of both worlds. Why? Simple: we would be able to travel 6,500 light-years away in space during a human lifetime, and who knows what we could find there! Nature has unlimited potential when it comes to amazing us.
NASA astronomers have recently used X-ray imaging to focus once again on the Crab Nebula. The cosmic object is located in the Taurus constellation, and any possible plans that we might have today of going there would result in a failure. The distance is way too much for the current technology of the world to handle. But who knows what Elon Musk might be secretly preparing for us all?
A new perspective on the Crab Nebula
Thanks to NASA’s advanced “toys,” we can now have another look at the Crab Nebula.But this time, the space object appears as we’ve never seen it before. Feel free to check out the resulting image below:
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Astronomers have been using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) to create a detailed map of the magnetic field of the Crab Nebula.
Michela Negro, who’s a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, explained as the space agency’s website quotes:
The Crab is one of the most-studied high-energy astrophysical objects in the sky. So it is extremely exciting that we could learn something new about this system by looking through IXPE’s ‘polarized lenses,.
Apart from being a supernova remnant, the Crab Nebula is also home to many stars. This also means that the chances are high for some planets to exist there as well, which automatically raises the possibility of extraterrestrial life dwelling in those remote regions of space as well.
Only time will (hopefully) tell for sure if there is anything alive in the Crab Nebula or not.
