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Message: <blockquote data-quote="x-pert" data-source="post: 4291838" data-attributes="member: 837">An interesting image taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a hand-shaped nebula coming out of a young, tiny but powerfully rotating pulsar called PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short.<a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/b1509.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/b1509_420.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  Image courtesy: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane, et al. The dense pulsar is only about 12 miles (19 kilometers)  in diameter, but has produced this hand-shaped nebula, made from x-ray radiation (light), which is about 150 light-years in length.B1509 is also only about 1,700 years old and located about 17,000 light-years from Earth.A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star that has resulted from the death of a super-massive star by a fierce explosion called a supernova.It is rotating once in about 7 seconds, a very fast spinning pulsar.The supernova remnant (SNR), the burnt out star, is called MSH 15-52 (G 320.4-01.2). [ArXiv: “<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112003" target="_blank">Chandra observations of PSR B1509-58 and Supernova Remnant G320.4-1.2</a>”; and Astronomy & Astrophysics: “<a href="http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2001/28/aah2847/aah2847.right.html" target="_blank">On the age of PSR B 1509-58</a>”]Because of its rapid rotation about its axis, it is spewing out a lot of energy into space. Some of this energy has been loosely formed into a “cosmic hand” of sorts.Source: <a href="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24321/1066/" target="_blank">http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24321/1066/</a>Read more: <a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/" target="_blank">http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/</a></blockquote>

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