The image was created as spinning material interacts with magnetic fields, it glows with X-rays. This of course is not the first time the nebula has be photographed. Previously it had been detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
From the article:
- The hand-shaped object is a pulsar wind nebula that was the result of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion 17,000 light-years away.
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