Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... It is now understood that a spectacular supernova explosion - the detonation of a massive star whose remains are now visible as the Crab Nebula - was responsible for the apparition. ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have recently discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. ... Publications with keywords: pulsar . ... Runaway Star . ... Crab Nebula Mosaic from HST . ...

... May 31, 1996 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... It is now understood that a spectacular supernova explosion - the detonation of a massive star whose remains are now visible as the Crab Nebula - was responsible for the apparition. ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have recently discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. ... About APOD | ...

... September 5, 1998 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. Highlights of this HST Crab "movie" show wisps of material moving away from the pulsar at half the speed of light, a scintillating halo, and an intense knot of emission dancing, sprite-like, above the pulsar's pole. ...

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... About ATNF overview . ... Both are consistent with earlier estimates, computed for the population of optically selected galaxies. This consistency occurs because, although the distribution of optical central surface brightnesses among galaxies is flat, we fail to find a population of galaxies with central surface brightnesses fainter than 24б  B - , even though there is no observational selection against them. Keywords: Galaxies: Luminosity Function, Mass Function; Surveys . ...

... 1) A Multiwavelength Study of Tadpole Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Straughn, A., et al. (including S. Ravindranath), 2015, ApJ, 814, 97. 2) The Rate of Core Collapse Supernovae to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS and CLASH Supernova Surveys, Strolger, L., et al. (including S. Ravindranath), 2015, ApJ, 813, 93. ... 18) "Resolved Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Star Formation in Disks at High Redshift", Elmegreen, D.M., Elmegreen, B.G., Ravindranath, S., Coe, D.A., 2007, ApJ, 658, 763. ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

... It was the fiery death of a massive star, one of the most violent events in nature. We call these explosions 'supernovae', and this one was bright enough to outshine the rest of its galaxy combined! This stunning view of the nearby galaxy was captured by astronomers studying the after-effects of the explosion. ... This galaxy is known as a spiral galaxy , like the Milky Way. Named so because of the loosely wound spiral-shape arms that can be seen wrapping around the bright galaxy centre. ...