http://www.rookieastronomy.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was almost 1,000 years ago back in the year 1054 that a nearby star exploded.  The power and light exerted by this super nova was seen and recorded by humans here on Earth.  We now know this as the Crab Nebula in the Constellation Taurus.  At the heart of ... http://www.rookieastronomy.com/crab-nebula/ This Deep Field Image was taken with a wide angle lens and shows the California Nebula in the Constellation Perseus and the Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus.  These 2 features above us are actually quite distant in the sky; you could fit 25 full moons between them! The Pleiades (pictured right) ... http://www.rookieastronomy.com/awesome-astronomy-picture-wide/