The Mimbres people in southwestern New Mexico weren't asleep in July 1054, when the explosion of a supernova created the Crab Nebula. The Mimbres depicted the event on a clay pot, as a rabbit in close proximity to a 23-rayed star. Which makes sense, because the light from the supernova (the star) would have illuminated the moon (the rabbit), which at the beginning of the event was a crescent rising in the east; the whole spectacle being visible to Chinese observers, on the other side of the globe, during daylight hours for 23 days.