The highest-energy photons ever seen hail from the Crab Nebula
Some of the supernova remnant’s gamma rays have more than 100 trillion electron volts of energy
![Crab Nebula](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/062019_ec_high-energy-proton_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
CRAB FISHING Scientists hunting for high-energy photons raining down on Earth from space have found the most energetic light yet detected. It’s from the Crab Nebula, a remnant of an exploded star (shown in an image combining light seen by multiple telescopes).
NASA, ESA, NRAO, AUI, NSF and G. Dubner/University of Buenos Aires