Crab Nebula supernova
July 4, 1054
A new star blazed in Taurus bright enough to see in daylight for weeks, recorded by Song, Japanese, and Arab astronomers. European chroniclers were curiously silent. Modern radio telescopes still study the expanding wreckage as the Crab Nebula, with a pulsar at its heart spinning thirty times a second. Anasazi rock art in Chaco Canyon may also depict the event, a crescent moon beside a bright star.
In context
Also in 1054 (4 other events on record)
- Great Schism between Rome and Constantinople · Europe · Religion
- Vietnam Renamed Dai Viet Under Ly Thanh Tong · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Anasazi Astronomers Record the Crab Nebula Supernova · North America · Science
- Yaroslav the Wise dies at Kiev · Europe · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Science
Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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