https://doi.org/10.1086/316199 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/316199 ABSTRACT Published images of the Crab Nebula have been scanned and measured to derive ...

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that appeared in 1054. "Historical records, including Chinese accounts, describe an unusually bright star appearing in the sky," said the KU researcher.

Less than a hundred years later, Arabic and Chinese astronomers marveled at a supernova that created the Crab ... the nebula ...