# Crab Nebula on SpaceSphere

> What is left of a star that exploded, seen and written down by Chinese astronomers who watched it light up the daytime sky.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/crab-nebula

Supernova remnant

What is left of a star that exploded, seen and written down by Chinese astronomers who watched it light up the daytime sky.

## Facts

- **Position**: 83.63321, 22.01447 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 8.4 (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Apparent size**: about 8 x 4 arcminutes (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Constellation**: Taurus (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC1952, M1, IRAS 05315+2158, LBN 833

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr).
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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