'Hand of God' appears in NASA image

X-ray image captures uniquely shaped nebula

This amazing image of a nebula near a pulsar has been nicknamed the "Hand of God" by the people at NuSTAR, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.

The picture is compiled from X-ray images of a pulsar wind nebula, the leftover material from a star that exploded.

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Scientists say that one of the big mysteries of the object is whether the material is actually shaped like a hand, or if the particles from the pulsar is interacting with the material in a specific way to make it appear that way.

Read a more detailed analysis of the image from NASA's NuSTAR site here.


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