By- Srishti Verma
Chandra and IXPE, two of NASA's X-ray telescopes, have taken pictures of the "bones" of a cosmic "hand" that perished 1,500 years ago.
The space agency released images of a massive "hand" with four "fingers" that are dancing in purple plumes around the Milky Way.
According to NASA, stars create extraordinarily dense objects known as neutron stars when they run out of nuclear fuel to burn and collapse over themselves.
These stars develop into pulsars because they frequently have strong magnetic fields.
“Young pulsars can create jets of matter and antimatter moving away from the poles of the pulsar, along with an intense wind, forming a ‘pulsar wind nebula’,” as per the space agency.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory made the first observation of the pulsar, PSR B1509-58.
Through the use of a telescope, it was discovered that the object, known as MSH 15-52, is a pulsar wind nebula that resembles a human hand.
The pulsar is 16,000 light-years from Earth and can be found at the foot of the nebula's "palm."