This new Hubble image -- one among the largest ever produced with the
Earth-orbiting observatory -- shows the most detailed view so far of
the entire Crab Nebula ever made. The Crab is arguably the single most
interesting object, as well as one of the most studied, in all of
astronomy. The image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble's WFPC2
workhorse camera.
The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly
dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was
assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble
Space Telescope and is the highest resolution image of the entire Crab
Nebula ever made.