The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova.1 It consists of an outer network of filaments, which emit a line spectrum, and an inner amorphous region, which emits a continuous spectrum of optical 2 as well as radio 3 radiation.As was first suggested by
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Donald E. Osterbrock (1957) studied this question.