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Faint X‐Ray Structure in the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula

Faint X‐Ray Structure in the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula

We report on a Chandra observation of the Crab Nebula that gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab's X-ray-emitting Pulsar Wind Nebula, or PWN. There is structure in all directions. Fingers, loops, bays, and the South Pulsar Jet all indicate that either filamentary material or …