The Chandra X-ray telescope has been monitoring space objects for more than 20 years.
The Chandra X-ray telescope has been monitoring space objects for more than 20 years.
A huge ghost structure stretching after a shining cloud of dust was photographed in space by NASA’s X-ray telescope, the Chandra space telescope, writes the NASA announcement in the wake of the Origo.
The “hand,” experts say, was created by the death of a massive star; after the supernova explosion, a rapidly rotating, extremely dense stellar remnant called a pulsar was formed. This pulsar, in turn, created a bubble of charged particles around it, which, together with the debris from the starburst, forms a 150-year-old hand-like structure in space. The hand pictured reaches for a glowing cloud of gas, the RCW 89.