What a catastrophic explosion this must have been! Related: Iconic Crab Nebula shines in gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope views (video, image) While some stellar explosions are not very great ...

The remnants of this explosion are visible today as the Crab Nebula. Within the nebula, astronomers have found a pulsar, the ultra-dense remains of a star that blew up.

This is the Crab Pulsar, and within its radio pulses is a strange signal that has puzzled astronomers for years. Called the ...

The Crab Nebula is a remnant of a supernova explosion. All the new Chandra images are gorgeous. The Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion, is another well-known formation. The Chandra ...

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way ...

A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent to the California Institute of ...