Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: The Crab Nebula Ain't Got No Legs
<a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1513/">ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2</a>01SPoW-June7-13-04
NGC 6503 is a spiral galaxy at the edge of the “Local Void,” a seemingly empty section of space nearly 150 million light-years across.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1523/">ESO/P. Kervella</a>02SPoW-June7-13-02
A first-time look at a giant red star, L2 Puppis, giving birth to a planetary nebula.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1523a/">ESO / Manu Mejias</a>03SPoW-June7-13-08
A photo of the Crab Nebula, a remnant of a supernova explosion. Remains of the exploded star are still expanding about 1500 kilometres per second.
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA18317"> NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>04SPoW-June7-13-07
Saturn’s moon Thethys which is covered by multiple impact craters. The crater Odysseus (pictured on the right) covers about 18 percent of the moon’s surface.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1523d/">ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2</a>05SPoW-June7-13-03
A southern constellation surrounding L2 Puppis in the Milky Way.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/chandra-finds-evidence-for-serial-black-hole-eruptions.html">X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/S.Randall et al., Optical: SDSS</a>06SPoW-June7-13-06
A composite of NGC 5813, a group of galaxies with a supermassive black hole in its center. The black hole has had multiple eruptions over the last 50 million years.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-meeting-the-neighbors">ESA/Hubble & NASA</a>07SPoW-June7-13-05
A dwarf irregular galaxy PGC 1843 which is part of the space surrounding our galaxy known as the Local Volume.
