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Interesting Picture from NASA Jan 11, 2014 19:21:03 GMT -6

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This undated x-ray image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shows a cloud of material resembling a hand.

Newser) – A newly released NASA photo depicts what appears to be an enormous hand floating in space. The "Hand of God," as it's being called, actually consists of the remains of an exploded star, Space.com explains. It had been imaged in 2009 using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which captured low-energy X-ray light that appears as the red and green portions; but for the first time, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, aka NuSTAR, imaged it in high-energy X-rays, which are seen in blue.

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Maggie Administrator Posts: 694	Interesting Picture from NASA Jan 12, 2014 8:15:53 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Maggie on Jan 12, 2014 8:15:53 GMT -6 That really does look like a hand, doesn't it. I used to visit the NASA site frequently. The pictures are (or were-- I assume it is still in business) spectacular.
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Interesting Picture from NASA Jan 12, 2014 10:59:07 GMT -6

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Jan 12, 2014 8:15:53 GMT -6 Maggie said:

That really does look like a hand, doesn't it. I used to visit the NASA site frequently. The pictures are (or were-- I assume it is still in business) spectacular.

The NASA site still has a fantastic photograph library. Lots of amazing pictures. Their link is HERE

In my younger years when I was very active in Amateur Astronomy I was quite fascinated by DSO's (Deep Space Objects) especially the Messier Objects (Nebulae etc) I find the current photographs to be unbelievable. Quite a lot of photographic advances over the past 50 years.

My favorite object has always been M-31 (Andromeda) fantastic viewing even with low power binoculars. Today's photos are mind boggling.

2,000,000 light year distance from us. to put it in perspective the sun is 8 light minutes away from us.

One light year is about 3,000,000,000,000 miles, Andromeda is the closest Galaxy to use. (Besides the Galaxy our solar system is in)

Gives some idea as to how big the universe is.

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