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Friday, December 02, 2005

Crab Nebula Picture

[Hat tips to Jack and LGF]

This is just gorgeous.

A mind-blowing new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the six-light-year-wide Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion nearly a thousand years ago.
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4 comments:

  1. looks like the Eye of Sauron as opposed to a crab

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  2. I saw that picture last night and made it the background for my computer.

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  3. Sorry, my wife is already filling that role... :)

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