PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Pulsar Creates Cosmic "Hand"

Monday, April 6, 2009 - 16:56 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's x-ray eye in the sky recently snapped pictures of a hand-shaped nebula created as energetic particles get flung from the rotating core of a dead star.

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