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CNN: Giant Cosmic Hand


MattFancy

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So any ideas...

This is just a guess based on my first glimpse but I'd say it is possibly caused by a young and powerful pulsar (a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures). The finger-like structures are likely caused by energizing knots of material in a neighboring gas cloud.

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150 light years across?

Contemplate that for one second.

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second . Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles .

186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year

A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles .

So that would be ?

150 * 5,865,696,000,000 = 879,852,900,000,000 Miles

Or 111,008,440,575 Earths stacked end to end.

Not so big.. :silly:

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