Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings: 3/7/2022

Sarah-Marie
7 min readMar 7, 2022

Exploring the Crab Nebula

An astronomical image of the Crab Nebula utilizing x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and radio waves. In the background of the starry sky, the Crab Nebula lies at the center spewing tendrils of purple, blue, green, yellow, and red. Each color correlates to a type of electromagnetic radiation. The center is mostly white/ purple with green, blue, yellow, and red in tendrils on the outside.
The Multiwavelength Crab from NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day March 4th, 2022 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

Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way.

Utilizing March 4th, 2022’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (pictured above) of the Multiwavelength Crab, we can delve into a…

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