NASA Captures Photo of 'Skeleton Hand' in Space

By some strange coincidence, NASA has taken a photo of remnants of a star explosion which could be interpreted to look like a skeleton hand. In its wake, the explosion left a pulsar, the magnetic fields of which form a pulsar wind nebula. Because of this phenomenon, the charged particles wrap around the base of the nebula creating the resemblance of a ghostly hand.

NASA explains that the unique shape of the nebula was brought about by the high amount of polarization around MSH 15-52, thus projecting the charged particles outward in a linear fashion, which formed the fingers of the hand, meanwhile, the wrist area had more turbulent regions giving particles an energy boost and forming somewhat of a clump at the bottom.

(Image credit: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt)


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