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WOW!
It looks like a red X though
Religion and astronomy may not overlap often, but a new NASA X-ray image captures a celestial object that resembles the "Hand of God."
The cosmic "hand of God" photo was produced when a star exploded and ejected an enormous cloud of material, which NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, glimpsed in high-energy X-rays, shown in blue in the photo. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory had imaged the green and red parts previously, using lower-energy X-rays.
"NuSTAR's unique viewpoint, in seeing the highest-energy X-rays, is showing us well-studied objects and regions in a whole new light," NuSTAR telescope principal investigator Fiona Harrison, of the California Ins ute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement.
The new image depicts a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova. What's left behind is a pulsar, called PSR B1509-58 (B1509 for short), which spins around 7 times per second blowing a wind of particles into material ejected during the star's death throes.
As these particles interact with nearby magnetic fields, they produce an X-ray glow in the shape of a hand. (The pulsar is located near the bright white spot in the image but cannot be seen itself, NASA officials said.)
Scientists aren't sure whether the ejected material actually assumes the shape of a hand, or whether its interaction with the pulsar's particles is just making it appear that way.
"We don't know if the hand shape is an optical illusion," Hongjun An, of McGill University in Montreal, said in a statement. "With NuSTAR, the hand looks more like a fist, which is giving us some clues."
The red cloud appearing at the fingertips is a separate structure called RCW 89. The pulsar's wind may be heating the cloud to produce the low-energy X-ray glow, astronomers believe.
The X-ray energies seen by NuSTAR range from 7 to 25 kiloelectron volts, or keV, whereas the energies seen by Chandra range from 0.5 to 2 keV.
The Hand of God is an example of pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of perceiving familiar shapes in random or vague images. Other common forms of pareidolia include seeing animals or faces in clouds, or the man in the moon. Despite its supernatural appearance, the Hand of God was produced by natural astrophysical phenomena.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/hand-...ope-2D11889092
WOW!
It looks like a red X though
Try again.
It looks like God is reaching for a buffalo wing
That actually does look cool
But no one has ever seen god... so how would you know what his hand looks like.
Made in his image and so on and so forth.
Believing in god
I have...and so have you...he has a wonderful personality if you ask me...designing a penis and a vagina...and making it feel so good
and let's not forget the s... s that produce Milk for sustenance and a nice round apple bottom....evolution just can't do that brah
I see a Pokemon with y hair, tbh
i thought this was about Diego
Made in His image doesn't refer to physical appearance.
While firing an Iron Man repulsor.
It means he votes Republican and helps people score touchdowns and win Grammys.
My favorite is the North America Nebula
First one looks like a facehugger from Aliens about to a flaming eggroll. Second looks like Akuma from Street Fighter.
looks like willy wonka
What does it refer to?
irony is the "hand of god" statement was spoken out from a 's mouth
In order to be God, God must be ________. Logic dictates that there can only be one ________ being. Therefore, God is ________. Like God, every human being is ________.
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