tight new nasa photo:

[melbufrauma]

it looks like a hand reaching towards the red light

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827...-nebula-02.jpg
"Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows. So it is with PSR B1509-58, which long ago collapsed into a sphere just 12 miles in diameter after running out of fuel.

And what a strange scene this one has created.

In a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, high-energy X-rays emanating from the nebula around PSR B1509-58 have been colored blue to reveal a structure resembling a hand reaching for some eternal red cosmic light.

The star now spins around at the dizzying pace of seven times every second -- as pulsars do -- spewing energy into space that creates the scene.

Strong magnetic fields, 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, are thought to be involved, too. The combination drives an energetic wind of electrons and ions away from the dying star. As the electrons move through the magnetized nebula, they radiate away their energy as X-rays.

The red light actually a neighboring gas cloud, RCW 89, energized into glowing by the fingers of the PSR B1509-58 nebula, astronomers believe.

The scene, which spans 150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked 17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here.

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers)."

Cosmic Hand Reaches for the Light

[Devolver]

Hi res of that picture would be tits.

[_chuchu]

Hi res of that picture would be tits.

Would fukken save this.

[Charismatic]

def tight dawg

[Firedemon]

I was thinking the same thing with the high res pic.

[Mizango]

Saw that this morning on Galaxy zoo.

You see that? That's fucking science right there baby! I love the Chandra satellite, Melb have you see the time lapse pulsar they have? Its take by Chandra over a 10 year period showing gas spewing outward from a supernova.

[tyven]

Saw that this morning on Galaxy zoo.

You see that? That's fucking science right there baby! I love the Chandra satellite, Melb have you see the time lapse pulsar they have? Its take by Chandra over a 10 year period showing gas spewing outward from a supernova.

hand of god, duh

[_chuchu]

The question here is whether it is a left or right hand

[Kajii]

looks like they play that foosball in the cosmos too

[Penthesilea]

The question here is whether it is a left or right hand

supinate your right hand, it matches up with the one in the picture.

[Mizango]

hand of god, duh

You bitch... don't you dare sully my passion. Then again, them piggy backing off of us really wouldn't surprise me one bit, what else is new?

[Charismatic]

You bitch... don't you dare sully my passion. Then again, them piggy backing off of us really wouldn't surprise me one bit, what else is new?

I'd like to see science explain me getting laid.
That right there was an act of God.

[Mizango]

I'd like to see science explain me getting laid.
That right there was an act of God.

Computer load food stamps and WIC vouchers to Lone star cards >>>> You take said card and splurge your Negro bovine-esque concubine at the nearest HEB >>> Said bovine show their appreciation by allow you to fondle their udders.

There you have it dawg, done. Houston hoes are massive.

[Charismatic]

I'm talking about sex with real women dawg, like FoD thread type material... and not the D kind.

Just sayin' man, having faith pays off.

[guartz]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...z/evilface.jpg

[Diamicles]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...z/evilface.jpg

I lol'd

[melbufrauma]

Saw that this morning on Galaxy zoo.

You see that? That's fucking science right there baby! I love the Chandra satellite, Melb have you see the time lapse pulsar they have? Its take by Chandra over a 10 year period showing gas spewing outward from a supernova.

no i havnt seen that but if you could link it up that be tight lol

[Mizango]

no i havnt seen that but if you could link it up that be tight lol

But of course. Let me see if I can link it from work..

Gimme a few.

[Purrrfect]

But of course. Let me see if I can link it from work..

Gimme a few.

19 minutes... wtf mang.

[shidobu]

I lol'd

Universe making a better dbz movie

/yes