Dark Energy Camera Captures the Red Glow of a Cosmic “Hand” Emerging From the Interior of a Nebula
By NSF NOIRLab (U.S. National Science Foundation National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory) About 1300 light-years away, in the constellation Puppis, a ghostly hand appears to be emerging from the interstellar medium and reaching out into the cosmos. This cloudy, ominous structure is CG 4, a cometary globule that has been given the nickname ‘God’s Hand’. […]