A celestial object captured by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) that resembles the cosmic "Hand of God." The object is the result of a star explosion which ejected an enormous cloud of material that shows in blue in the NuSTAR's high-energy X-rays. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory had imaged the green and red parts previously, using lower-energy X-rays.

The dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova produced a pulsar wind nebula which left behind a pulsar called PSR B1509-58 (B1509 for short). The pulsar spins around 7 times per second blowing a wind of particles into material ejected during the star's death throes. As these particles interact with nearby magnetic fields, they produce an X-ray glow in the shape of a hand.

Scientists aren't sure whether the ejected material actually assumes the shape of a hand, or whether its interaction with the pulsar's particles is just making it appear that way.