A haunting “face” on Jupiter and a glowing, skeletal hand-shaped nebula are just a couple of creepy celestial features recently spotted by NASA missions.

A haunting “face” on Jupiter and a glowing, skeletal hand-shaped nebula are just a couple of creepy celestial features recently spotted by NASA missions.

In 2001, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory first observed the pulsar PSR B1509-58 and saw that its pulsar wind nebula (MSH 15-52) resembled a human hand. The pulsar, at the base of the nebula’s ...

The pulsar PSR B1509-58 is located near the center of the image — or the base of the palm of MSH 15-52 — and ... determining the basic shape of the nebula, like the bones do in a person's hand." ...

This skeletal hand is actually the glowing gas of a pulsar wind nebula. This nebula, energized by the super-hot, super-magnetic remnant of a star that exploded some 1,500 years ago.

The pulsar itself is located at the base of the ‘palm’ of the nebula, while the whole system spans about 150 light-years.

“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula taken by NIRCam on the JWST. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. ... These spheres are about 8 centimeters in diameter, a little smaller than a softball, so you can ...

An interstellar nebula known as “God’s Hand” can be seen reaching toward a spiral galaxy in new images captured by the Dark Energy Camera.

Cosmic Hand Reaches for the Light. News. By Space.com Staff published 4 April 2009 ... The blue hand-like structure was created by energy emanating from the nebula around they dying star PSR B1509-58.

The Dark Energy Camera captured a rarely seen celestial phenomenon in action: a cosmic cloud called “God’s Hand,” which appears to reach out for a spiral galaxy.