Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Expansion of M1, the Crab Nebula

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The Crab Nebula expands in this animation created with a 1999 image by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and a 2012 image by the 0.8 meter Schulman Telescope at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter.