Hand of God: X-Ray Telescopes Reveal a Hand-Shaped Cosmic …
2023年10月31日 · In 2001, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory first set its sights on one such pulsar dubbed PSR B1509-58, only to find something unbelievable: a pulsar wind nebula that bore a striking resemblance...
NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the “Bones” of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand
2023年10月30日 · Young pulsars can create jets of matter and antimatter moving away from the poles of the pulsar, along with an intense wind, forming a “pulsar wind nebula”. This one, known as MSH 15-52, has a shape resembling a human hand and provides insight into how these objects are formed.
Unveiling the Ethereal “God’s Hand” Nebula: A ... - NASA Space …
2024年5月9日 · A breathtaking new image captured by the Dark Energy Camera has brought to light a cosmic wonder – a cloud of gas and dust eerily reminiscent of a ghostly hand reaching across the vast expanse of space. This phenomenon, aptly nicknamed "God's Hand," is a rare type of nebula known as a cometary globule. Beyond
High-Energy X-ray View of 'Hand of God' - NASA Jet Propulsion ...
2014年1月9日 · Nicknamed the 'Hand of God,' this object is called a pulsar wind nebula, imaged by NASA's NuSTAR. It's powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion.
High-Energy X-ray View of ‘Hand of God’ - NASA
2014年1月9日 · Nicknamed the “Hand of God,” this object is called a pulsar wind nebula. It’s powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion. The stellar corpse, called PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short, is a pulsar: it rapidly spins around, seven times per second, firing out a particle wind into the material around it ...
NASA SVS | Hand of God - NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
2014年5月14日 · This object may look to some like a hand X-rayed at the doctor's office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. Nicknamed the "Hand of God," this object is called a pulsar wind nebula. It's powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion.
NASA releases most detailed image of eerie 'Hand of God' in …
2023年10月31日 · Nicknamed the 'Hand of God', the structure is the result up of a pulsar - a highly magnetized rotating neutron star - and its pulsar wind nebula. The pulsar, which has the catchy name PSR B1509-58, is located at the base of the 'palm' in the structure, and was left behind by a supernova explosion about 1,600 years ago.
Watch a ‘cosmic hand hitting a wall’ in eerie images from
2021年6月27日 · Across the course of 14 years, NASA ’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has observed the “Hand of God”, a distant nebula that resembles a giant, cosmic hand reaching through space toward a wall of red gas. Now, the space agency has shared imagery that measures its journey through space for the first time.
NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory Cosmic Hand | Hypebeast
2021年6月27日 · NASA ‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory has just released a new image show an incredible image of a distant nebula (17,000 light-years away). While naming nebulae after animals or things they resemble...
Cometary Globule 4 (CG4) (Hand of God Nebula) [RGB]
Cometary Globule 4 (CG4), also nicknamed as the 'Hand of God' Nebula, is a dusty star-forming region approximately 1,300 light-years away from Earth and can be seen in the constellation of Puppis. Cometary globules are named as such because …