A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year.
The hand is actually the remnants of a collapsed giant star, which ran out of nuclear fuel around 1,500 years ago, NASA said in a news release.WASHINGTON — NASA has released a spooky new image that the space agency says shows the"bones" of a"ghostly cosmic hand."
By focusing two of NASA's X-ray space telescopes on this neutron star and its surrounding magnetic fields, the agency and its astronomers are able to learn more about how a pulsar injects particles into space and shapes the environment surrounding the star. It's one of those pulsars that created the hand-shaped structure: X-ray data showed that a young pulsar created a jet of matter and antimatter that moved from the poles of the magnetic field to form a"pulsar wind nebula.
"The IXPE data gives us the first map of the magnetic field in the 'hand'," said study leader Roger Romani of Stanford University in California."The charged particles producing the X-rays travel along the magnetic field, determining the basic shape of the nebula, like the bones do in a person's hand."
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