Hand Of God #2 - young pulsar shows its hand

[Omaroo]

Wow - how's this for another (and I think better) Hand of God?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1323.html

[astroron]

Thanks Chris :) beautiful image and a very interesting post:thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

I read about that on Yahoo.
It's an uncanny resemblence isn't it.
Our Universe is a strange place all right.

[CoolhandJo]

Is this image captured conventionally (optics) or xray? That is, can amatuer astromimers capture this image?

[Omaroo]

Chandra captured this in the x-ray part of the EM spectrum - so no, we can't capture this optically. Pity huh!