Giant Hand in Space

From Nasa

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/14/space.hand/index.html?iref=mpstoryview


In a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the nebula around PSR B1509-58 appears to resemble a cosmic hand reaching for some eternal red cosmic light.

The star now spins around at the dizzying pace of seven times every second--as pulsars do--spewing energy into space that creates the "hand."

Strong magnetic fields, 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, are thought to be inv