{"id":175265,"date":"2023-11-01T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-x-ray-telescopes-expose-the-bones-of-a-haunting-cosmic-hand"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:26:49","slug":"nasas-x-ray-telescopes-expose-the-bones-of-a-haunting-cosmic-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-x-ray-telescopes-expose-the-bones-of-a-haunting-cosmic-hand","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-ray telescopes expose the \u2018bones\u2019 of a haunting cosmic hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-x-ray-telescopes-expose-the-bones-of-a-haunting-cosmic-hand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This haunting formation is located 16,000 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Two powerful X-ray telescopes have joined forces to study an eerie-looking celestial entity referred to as the \u201ccosmic hand.\u201d NASA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>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) <\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201ccosmic hand.\u201d NASA\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}