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Spectacular and Awe-Inspiring, even NASA describes the remarkable image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope in those words. And what we see in this image is the beautiful Crab Nebula, truly a superstar among former super stars of the heavens.
This photograph shows the aftermath of the death of a massive star. Astronomers call this event a supernova, the luminous evidence of the explosion of a large star. It occurred when the unceasing nuclear reactions taking place at its core ever since it first became a star, had consumed much of its mostly hydrogen mass. At that point, the sheer force of gravity finally overcame the outward pressure of the “burning” of the still remaining inner material, until it then collapsed upon itself.