Nasa photos show giant blue cosmic hand

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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/14/space.hand/

The image, taken by NASA's space-based Chandra Observatory telescope, shows an X-ray nebula 150 light years across.It shows what appear to be ghostly blue fingers -- thumb and pinky clearly discernible from index, ring and middle digits -- reaching into a sparkling cloud of fiery red.

NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar, known by the rather prosaic name of PSR B1509-58."The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand," NASA says.