.You don't get much more spectacular than this . . . .
July 4, 1054: The Crab Nebula made a spectacular debut in the heavens. Chinese astronomers mark the beginning of Supernova 1054, heralding the birth of what will become known as the Crab Nebula.
Planning on watching fireworks?
Here’s an astronomical firework to help you start the celebrations! In the images above, the top left shows the 3 GHz data from the Very Large Array (radio). Moving clockise, the radio data (shown in red) is composited with: infrared data from Spitzer Space Telescope, optical continuum from Hubble Space Telescope, 500-nm optical data from Hubble, and ultraviolet data from XMM-Newton. The final two images are of the nebula center, and they are composites of the radio image with X-ray data from Chandra and near-infrared data from Hubble. [American Astronomical Association]
