Located in Taurus, for 10 points, name this cloudy entity which resembles a certain animal, the first of the Messier objects.
A recent study has suggested that this object contains four magnetic poles, and much earlier, Iosif Shklovsky proposed that a colorful region of this object was attributable to synchrotron radiation. It contains knotty filaments, an indicator of its accelerated expansion from the time of its creation, which was observed by the Chinese in 1054. It contains an object first confirmed in 1968, a namesake pulsar spinning at 30 cycles per second. Located in Taurus, for 10 points, name this cloudy entity which resembles a certain animal, the first of the Messier objects.
A recent study has suggested that this object contains four magnetic poles, and much earlier, Iosif Shklovsky proposed that a colorful region of this object was attributable to synchrotron radiation.
Crab Nebula [or NGC 1952; accept M1 before "Messier" is read; prompt on Taurus A;