The space telescope assembled a huge photo array, thanks to which a particularly sharp image of the Cancer Nebula was possible
Avi Blizovsky
The Cancer Nebula, which is six light years across, is a remnant of a supernova explosion of a giant star. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event for Finn almost a thousand years, in 1054, and so apparently did Native Americans (although there is no systematic record of this). The image is composed of 24 different exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000. It is one of the largest images taken by Hubble and the highest resolution photograph of the Cancer Nebula.
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
For information on the Hubble website, including the option to download the image in high resolution
