This haunting formation is located 16,000 light-years from Earth.
Two powerful X-ray telescopes have joined forces to study an eerie-looking celestial entity referred to as the “cosmic hand.” NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) captured vivid and complex features of this haunting formation located 16,000 light-years from Earth.
As per the press release, the images revealed the skeletal-like structure of this ghostly hand-shaped formation in space, depicting its magnetic field patterns.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt)
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) captured vivid and complex features of this haunting formation located 16,000 light-years from Earth.
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