25 years is a short time on the cosmic scale, but these images taken by Hubble in 1999 and 2024, show distinct changes in the structure of the expanding Crab Nebula.
Rather than stretching out over time, filaments appear to have simply moved outward.
Its filaments are driven outward by energy from the dense, rapidly spinning pulsar at the core of the nebula, which is the remaining core of the star 6,500 light years away, that went supernova in 1054.


