see this short movie

made from timelapse shots of Crab

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/combinedmovie_sm.mov

 

here are other movies of Crab

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/movies.html

 

advise you select the low resolution version so it takes less time to download and let the download happen in the background while u do something else. it takes several minutes

but then u can come back and play it

 

"This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red)."

Cool

i am surprised you are just posting this now. i would think that you would have seen this before.

Cool

 

definitely

 

here is the March 26, 2005 Astronomy Picture of the Day

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050326.html

 

it has a still shot of Crab with lots of detail and it also has some facts and links, e.g. to the movies

Yeah, I have to admit, that looks pretty damn good. Makes me wish I'd taken physics

That looks like waves in the water. What is that?

That looks like waves in the water. What is that?

 

The expansion of the leftovers from a supernova that was observed in 1054 A.D. Basically it's the gas that got blown off, and the rippling is, I expect, from a compression wave travelling through the nebula.

The expansion of the leftovers from a supernova that was observed in 1054 A.D. Basically it's the gas that got blown off, and the rippling is, I expect, from a compression wave travelling through the nebula.

 

Is that the one Chinese astronomers observed? I remember that from history class.

Is that the one Chinese astronomers observed? I remember that from history class.

 

Yes.