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This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit. Earth is about five degrees above the horizon in the photo. The unnamed surface features in the foreground are near the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The lunar horizon is approximately 780 kilometers from the spacecraft. Width of the photographed area at the horizon is about 175 kilometers. On the Earth 240,000 miles away, the sunset terminator bisects Africa.
This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event in 1054 CE.
The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star. The neutron star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that appear to pulse 30 times a second due to the neutron star's rotation. A neutron star is the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star.
The Crab Nebula derived its name from its appearance in a drawing made by Irish astronomer Lord Rosse in 1844, using a 36-inch telescope. When viewed by Hubble, as well as by large ground-based telescopes such as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the Crab Nebula takes on a more detailed appearance that yields clues into the spectacular demise of a star, 6,500 light-years away.

The newly composed image was assembled from 24 individual Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 exposures taken in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000. The colors in the image indicate the different elements that were expelled during the explosion. Blue in the filaments in the outer part of the nebula represents neutral oxygen, green is singly-ionized sulfur, and red indicates doubly-ionized oxygen.
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Photo by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders
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Montecanal

Aragon, Spain · Europe

About Montecanal

Montecanal is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Cuarte de Huerva, 5km from Aljaferia Palace, Zaragoza.

Montecanal is in Aragon, Spain, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Cuarte de Huerva, about 4 km away.

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What is there to see near Montecanal?

Within an hour or so of Montecanal: Aljaferia Palace, Zaragoza (5 km), Basilica del Pilar (6 km).

Are there any good drives near Montecanal?

The nearest famous roads are Puerto de Somport.

Where is Montecanal?

Montecanal is in Aragon, Spain, about 4 km from Cuarte de Huerva.

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Quick Information

Population
20,000
Continent
Europe
Country
Spain
Region
Aragon
Timezone
Europe/Madrid
Coordinates
41.6296, -0.9387

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Spain

Police
091
Ambulance
061
Fire
080
All emergencies
112
Driving side
right

Guardia Civil (traffic police): 062. Two warning triangles required in vehicles.

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Worth the detour from Montecanal

2 notable places within an hour's drive.

castle

Aljaferia Palace, Zaragoza

A magnificent 11th-century Moorish palace in Aragon, the northernmost example of Hispano-Muslim architecture in Spain.

5 km · about 10 min drive

cathedral

Basilica del Pilar

A vast riverside basilica bristling with tiled domes and towers, Spain's great Marian shrine reflected in the Ebro at Zaragoza.

6 km · about 10 min drive

Driving in Spain

Drives on
the right
Petrol
~€1.55/litre
Motorway tolls
~€4.00/100km

When to drive here

April to October

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