(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured wispy new details of cosmic gas and dust within the Crab Nebula, revealing insights into what happens in the aftermath of a massive star explosion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different ...

Located 6,500 light-years away, the Crab Nebula is famous among astronomers for its elaborate and beautiful structure. A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows off the gorgeous nebula as ...

NASA released a vivid new image of the Crab Nebula taken using the space agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. The nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Taurus ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured never-before-seen details of the Crab Nebula. The new image reveals ghostly tendrils and the dense core of an exploded star in exquisite detail. The Crab ...

"The Crab Nebula lives up to a tradition in astronomy: The nearest, brightest, and best-studied objects tend to be bizarre." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the most detailed image so far of the Crab Nebula, a gorgeous supernova remnant of a star that exploded 1,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on ...

Scientists really want to understand what happens when a star dies. Sure, we know that supernovas are triggered, and scientists have even watched dying stars explode into supernovas. But, we're still ...

When Chinese astronomers first glimpsed the Crab Nebula in 1054 CE — they didn’t see anything like this. A new photo courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captures milky strands of ...