"Hand of God" astronomers photo

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Astronomers who captured this image with a NASA telescope are calling it the "Hand of God." The photo shows the remains of a star that exploded 17,000 light-years away: http://usat.ly/1fjicPr

What looks like an X-ray of a hand is actually the remains of a star that exploded 17,000 light-years away.

The astronomers who captured this image with a NASA space telescope call it the "Hand of God."

"We don't know if the hand shape is an optical illusion," said Hongjun An of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in a statement from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission.

What the image shows is a pulsar wind nebula, a dying star and the cloud of materials left over from the star after it exploded. The particles are interacting with nearby magnetic fields, causing the particles to glow in the image, according to NuSTAR.

It's unclear whether the nebula looks like a hand because of the way the particles interact with the magnetic fields or if the particles are actually shaped like a hand.

NuSTAR says the star is about 12 miles in diameter and spins at nearly seven times a second. As the star spins, it spews particles "upheaved during the star's violent death."

The NuSTAR space telescope was launched in June 2012 with the goal of observing black holes, dead and exploded stars and "other extreme objects," according to NuSTAR.

Sharing Love From Sweden - "It Costs"

IT COSTS

by Eva Haglund 

(Stockholm, Sweden)

Counseling at breakfast,

talking about the cost;

I could not go because 

I did not have the price.

My friends could not go either,

because they could not afford to pay;

My heart was sad thinking, 

" Do people have to give 

before they get comforted?"

They without money - 

are stopped at the door?

Were they who did not have enough 

at home for breakfast

Welcome  to the  meal?

Jesus shared the breakfast 

at the sea without fee.

The Samaritan comforted too 

without a price for he.

Was not the gospel for the poor?

Or just for them with money?

In the church would be agape,

To share our bread and honey.

Will the Bread of life -

the Word from heaven cost?

The Bread came to Bethlehem (House of Bread)

For you, and I, and all lost.

Would  He be welcome today?

Or would we close the door?

He gave His life, His Bread, 

He gave his life for the poor. 

Share His love to all,

Even as you are able.

Open the door

To the Star in a stable.

Rev.22:16, Luke 10:30-37