3 space telescopes combine to capture a new view of the Crab Nebula.
With a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its centre, it booms beams of radiation at 30 pulses per second, while around its pulsing heart whirl filaments of gas and debris flung out by the original explosion.
NASA visualisation specialists have now combined multi-wavelength data from Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer to create a 3D representation of this energetic nebula. View it here: