Caption: An artistic view of Athena and the Crab pulsar. The Crab image is a composite from Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope images.

Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Infrared:NASA-JPL-Caltech. Athena mission: ESA/IRAP/CNRS/UT3/CNES/Fab&Fab. Composition: ACO.