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Definition of Crab Nebula
1. Noun. A remnant of a supernova detected first in 1054 AD.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crab Nebula
Literary usage of Crab Nebula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Orbs of Heaven; Or: The Planetary and Stellar Worlds. A Popular by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1851)
"... Crab Nebula.—This object had long been known as a faint, ill-defined nebula
of an elliptical figure, with nothing to distinguish it from many other ..."
2. A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy by George Frederick Chambers (1877)
"527 188. The Nebulous Star i Orionis. (Earl of Sosse.) . . .528 189. The Nebulous
Star 45 $ IV Geminorum .... 528 190. The Crab Nebula in Taurus. ..."
3. Descriptive Astronomy by George Frederick Chambers (1867)
"523 The Nebula 4892 H Pegasi. (Earl of Roue.) . . „ 523 The Crab Nebula in Taurus.
(Sir J. Herschel.) . Plate XXXI. 527 The Crab Nebula in Taurus. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"... the one of which we constitute a comparatively insignificant, yet necessary part.
The circular nebula of Lyra, less distinct even than the Crab Nebula, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... possibility of detecting gravity waves from the Crab Nebula pulsar with a
device he has been building to make a new measurement of the speed of light. ..."
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