NASA discovers ‘Hand of God’ projected into space

From time immemorial, ancestors people raised their eyes to the sky to contemplate the vastness of space. There are many ancient traditions based on fortune telling art and prophetic actions in direct observation of the elements space.

He human brainfor survival, evolved to be able to recognize shapes and patterns clearly visually identifiable in the outside world. Nevertheless, the mind is often deceptiveand interprets the existence of objects, animals or figures where there are only abstract lines. Everyone has at one time or another played with looking for similarities to clouds, veins on a tile, or spots on a wall.

In this case it was a group of experts who saw strange figure at the training spacethus uniting intuition human nature with the study of the scientific method and astronomy.

They discover that the “hand of God” is pointed into space.

POT reported a curious structure that could be seen from Chamber of Dark Energy (DECam) Cerro Tololo Observatory, in Chile

as part of the NOIRLab program.

This spatial set will be located approximately 1300 light years planet Earth, being part Constellation Puppis. It has the appearance of a ghostly hand stretched out into space, emerging from cosmic dust.

As NASA reported to EuropaPress, this “God’s Hand” This is a type of structure already known and classified by astronomers. This is about comet cluster known by its acronym “CG 4”, is a cloudy and ominous formation that is one of many already identified clusters of comets scattered throughout the Milky Way.

What does the “hand of God” consist of?

These cometary globules are a subclass dark nebulae known as “Bok Globules”a type of isolated cloud formed by dense gas and cosmic dust and surrounded by very hot ionized materials.

In certain cases there is material releaseswhich create a kind queues which extend into space and resemble comets.

Images taken by the dark energy camera from Chile allow us to determine all the characteristics that allow us to include CG 4 in the group comet blood cells.

This is, among other things, their head from star dustwhich has a diameter 1.5 light yearsand it’s a long time line and weaker, which is calculated approximately eight light years in its length. Hand of God”then it will just be small Bok’s globule in comparison with other spatial structures of its type.

How can comet blood cells be observed?

These types of space objects are very difficult for scientists to image because they are so faint. Besides, dark stardust Their tails often block almost all light from passing through. They were first observed in 1976based on images taken by the British Schmidt Telescope located in Australia.

A dark energy camera or DeCam can detect a faint reddish glow ionized hydrogen which is located on the tail and outer edge of CG 4, thanks to its Hydrogen alpha filter. This type of light can only be seen when radiation from nearby hot stars bombards and stimulates the hydrogen present in the “hand of God.”

Despite the small size of this cometary globule, it contains enough gas to feed active training of several new stars the same size as the Sun.

Where are these structures located? Super nebula

Bok globules are distributed throughout the Milky Way, although the vast majority of them, including the “hand of God”, are located within the so-called “Gum Nebula”titanic spot hot gaswhere, in addition to CG 4, at least 31 more cometary globules were discovered.

According to EuropaPress, this giant nebula is believed to be none other than supernova remnant what happened back million years and which continue to expand. Although it is unknown why these blood cells take on their characteristic shape, scientists support two main hypotheses.

Origin of the “hand of God”

The first explanation given by science is that these structures may correspond spherical nebulae

like the Ring Nebula could have been, but it was influenced supernova explosion nearby, which may be the same explosion that created the Gum Nebula.

The second hypothesis put forward in this regard states that this class of cometary globules is formedstellar forces and radiation pressure coming from hot, massive stars nearby. The tails of all cometary globules observed in the Gum Nebula appear to extend from the center where Supernova remnant Vela And Sailing Pulsar.

This Sailing Pulsar is a star neutrons rotating at high speed, formed after the collapse of a massive star, from which emanates stellar winds and radiation pressure that can form cometary globules surrounding it.