NASA revealed that the “bones of a ghostly cosmic hand” that died 1,500 years ago are reaching out just above our heads.
Breathtaking telescopic images released by the space agency Monday show what appears to be a massive, four-fingered outstretched hand swirling around the Milky Way in purple plumes.
The spectral phalanges of pulsar wind nebula — known as MSH 15-52 — are the remnants of a giant star that collapsed on itself after running out of nuclear fuel to burn more than 15 centuries ago, forming an extremely dense object called a neutron star.