The complex and beautiful Tulip Nebula blossoms about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. Ultraviolet radiation from young energetic stars ionizes the atoms and powers the emission from the Tulip Nebula.

APOD 2024 august 28
Credit & Copyright: Anirudh Shastry

In 1054 CE, Chinese astronomers recorded a ‘Guest Star’ in the sky that was visible for several weeks. Nearly a thousand years later, in the same spot, we find the Crab Nebula.
This is a supernova remnant, A city-sized magnetized neutron star spinning around 30 times a second.

APOD 2024 July 25
Credit : NASA, ESA, ASI, Hubble, Chandra, IXPE

Crédit : Vojtěch Bauer

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