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The Crab Nebula, remnant of the explosion of a massive star
This image was taken by Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope. X-ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/ASU/J. Hester & A. Loll; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Minn./R. Gehrz.