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Crab Nebula

"A celestial cyclone, a pulsar at the heart of the Crab Nebula fires off jets of high-energy particles in this Chandra image."

—From "Super X-ray Vision," December 2002, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by NASA/CXC/SAO

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