NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer telescope studied the nebula for about 17 days, the agency said, marking the longest time it has focused on one object.
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released a spooky new image that the space agency says shows the 'bones' of a 'ghostly cosmic hand.' The hand is actually the remnants of a collapsed giant star, which ran out of nuclear fuel around 1,500 years ago, NASA said in a news release, and is about 16,000 light-years from Earth. After collapsing, it became a dense neutron star.
NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer telescope studied the nebula for about 17 days, the agency said, marking the longest time it has focused on one object since its launch in Dec. 2021. That provided a map of the magnetic field, according to an astronomer who led the study. 'The IXPE data gives us the first map of the magnetic field in the 'hand',' said study leader Roger Romani of Stanford University in California.
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