A guest star appears in Taurus and is recorded in East Asia
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Chinese court astronomers of the Song dynasty recorded a new star near the southern horn of Taurus, bright enough to be seen in daylight for a period usually given as about twenty-three days, and visible at night for roughly two years. Japanese records refer to the same object. The material was assembled and connected to the Crab Nebula by the sinologist J. J. L. Duyvendak in 1942. The date of first sighting is not settled: 4 July 1054 is the conventional value, but some records and later analyses point to an earlier appearance, and the discrepancy is a genuine problem in the source criticism rather than a rounding difference.
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- Crab Nebula (Messier 1) and the Crab Pulsarconcerns
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