Messier 1, The Crab Nebula

 

Messier1 or Crab Nebula and expanding volume of ionized gas created when a star went supernova some 1000 years ago in the constellation Taurus. The image was taken through Sulphur11, Hydrogen alpha and Oygen111 filters (with Sulphur plotted to the red cannel, Hydrogen to the green channel and Oxygen to the blue channel - SHO) COAST Robotic Telescope Mt Teide, Tenerife Credit: Open University and telescope.org - Pip Stakkert data reduction.

We have previously posted an image like this before but unfortunately it has come to light that the team on Mount Teide had mis-labelled the H alpha and Oxygen111 filters. See even professional astronomers may make mistakes! Our previous image was therefore OSH and not HSO - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

The above image with a luminosity layer added from a BVR filtered COAST image and then cropped and enlarged.

The central region of the BVR filtered image of M1 cropped and enlarged by Pip Stakkert.

 Somewhere within this maelstrom is a pulsar, a neutron star spinning 30x per second and left over from the collapse of a massive star in supernova 1000 years ago.

The Crab Nebula  previously published - HSO  OSH narrow band palette- Open University, telescope.org COAST robotic telescope. Credit Pip Stakkert Jodrell Plank Observatory