nebula

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Using X-ray observations from the XMM-Newton space telescope, DiKerby identified a pulsar wind nebula -- an expanding region filled with energetic electrons and particles receiving energy from a pulsar.

From Science Daily

During this mission, the instrument also collected data from the Crab pulsar and its surrounding wind nebula, one of the brightest and most stable sources of X-rays in the sky.

From Science Daily

You may have missed it, or even dismissed the image as a drab dot—nothing near the splendor of sights like the Carina nebula.

From Scientific American

It doesn’t have to be the night of a big event like the Perseid meteor shower, and you don’t have to start by trying to track down a hard-to-find phenomenon like the Crab nebula.

From Washington Post

Stars are born in cosmic clouds called nebulae, forming when their interiors collapse onto a central pilelike point that becomes the nascent star.

From Scientific American