The Crab Nebula is a nearby example of what type of physical phenomenon?
A) planetary nebula, a shell of gas leaving an old star
B) remnant of a supernova explosion
C) spiral galaxy, a collection of 100 billion stars
D) gas and dust cloud, the formation region for new stars
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