This marks the second astronomical apparition revealed by NASA this Halloween week.
NASA's X-ray space telescopes have revealed the 'bones' of an enormous cosmic hand. This marks the second 'ghostly' apparition to be spotted by NASA this Halloween week.Of course, the structure isn't actually a hand, but it represents something just as otherworldly: the magnetic field lines of a dead star, 16,000 light-years away from Earth.
Now, the space agency's newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has been observing the pulsar's wind nebula for over 17 days, the longest it has ever looked at a single object since its launch in December 2021.'The IXPE data gives us the first map of the magnetic field in the 'hand',' Roger Romani, a Physics Professor at Stanford University in California who led the study, said in a statement to NASA.
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