crab nebula

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   a remnant of a supernova detected first in 1054 AD

   Broadersupernova

   Part ofTaurus

Questions about crab nebula

What does crab nebula mean?

crab nebula means "a remnant of a supernova detected first in 1054 AD".

Is crab nebula a common word?

crab nebula is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.