NASA captures new image of “Hand of God” as star explodes

PSR B1509-58 “Hand Of God” photographed by NASA’s X-ray cameras. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill

NASA has captured an impressive new image of an exploded star dubbed the “Hand of God” using X-ray NuStar telescope.

The cloud of space matter that makes the image was ejected from an exploded star, with NASA describing the formation as a “stellar corpse” identified as PSR B1509-58. The exploded star spins around at seven times per second, ejecting material in all directions as it does.