{"id":26487,"date":"2025-05-08T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26487"},"modified":"2025-05-08T04:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T04:56:50","slug":"m1-the-incredible-expanding-crab-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26487","title":{"rendered":"M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2505\/Crab_Webb_998.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier&#8217;s  famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab Nebula is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the death explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of the Crab was witnessed by astronomers in the year 1054. Roughly 10 light-years across, the nebula is still expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometers per second. You can see the expansion by comparing these sharp images from the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. The Crab&#8217;s dynamic, fragmented filaments were captured in visible light by Hubble in 2005 and Webb in infrared light in 2023. This cosmic crustacean lies about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250508.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier&#8217;s famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab Nebula is now known to be <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26487\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-26487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26488,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487\/revisions\/26488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}