This image of
the Crab Nebula (M1) is one of the best known Hubble Space Telescope images.
But get a load of this! It's a
"21st century view" of the Crab Nebula. It takes data from different telescopes using different wavelengths of light and turns it all into a picture we can see. From space, NASA's Chandra provided X-ray data and ESA's XMM-Newton ultraviolet. Hubble supplied data in the visible range and NASA's Spitzer the infrared. This is shown in purple, blue, green and yellow. The Very Large Array (VLA) is a ground-based radio telescope and we see its data in red.
Wow!
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Dubner (IAFE, CONICET-University of Buenos Aires) et al.;
A. Loll et al.; T. Temim et al.; F. Seward et al.; VLA/NRAO/AUI/NSF; Chandra/CXC;
Spitzer/JPL-Caltech; XMM-Newton/ESA; Hubble/STScI