Hubble Telescope captures Crab Nebula, home to a pulsar that blinks 30 times per sec! NASA explains

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured lots of images that have something new to reveal. The telescope has also captured an image of Crab Nebula, home to a pulsar that appears to blink at a pulse 30 times per second. It can be known that pulsars are collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of stars that appear to blink. Also, pulsars were first discovered 55 years ago. Informing about the same, Hubble tweeted, “55 years ago, pulsars were first discovered! Pulsars are the collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of stars that appear to “blink” or pulse. This Hubble image shows the Crab Nebula, home to a pulsar that appears to pulse 30 times per second.”

55 years ago, pulsars were first discovered!Pulsars are the collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of stars that appear to “blink” or pulse.This Hubble image shows the Crab Nebula, home to a pulsar that appears to pulse 30 times per second. For more: https://t.co/T0Mi2TZa6l pic.twitter.com/95ec0wTE42

According to the information provided by NASA, in 1054, Chinese astronomers took notice of a “guest star” that was, for nearly a month, visible in the daytime sky. The “guest star” they observed was actually a supernova explosion, which gave rise to the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide remnant of the violent event. With an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and located 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, the Crab Nebula can be spotted with a small telescope and is best observed in January.

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“The nebula was discovered by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731, and later observed by Charles Messier who mistook it for Halley's Comet. Messier's observation of the nebula inspired him to create a catalog of celestial objects