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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6001. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Objects

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M1 is the famous CRAB NEBULA in Taurus, one of the most celebrated objects in the sky, the remains of a supernova seen to explode in AD 1054. Messier stumbled across it in 1758 while following a comet that passed through Taurus; he described the nebula as `elongated like the flame of a candle'. However, it had already been discovered by an English astronomer, John Bevis, in 1731. M1 lies just ove...

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