NASA published the image of a star in the shape of a dead hand; An image you have never seen before!

Just in time for Halloween, NASA has shared a new image of a stellar nebula taken by the IXPE observatory. This image looks very similar to a human hand and shows a nebula 16,000 light years away.

This nebula, named PSR B1509-58, shows the remnants of a dead supergiant star. Supergiant stars are one of the largest stars in the universe. Most of these stars are called main sequence stars, the most famous of which is our own Sun. Main sequence stars are formed by nuclear fusion, in which atoms fuse to create a chain reaction that produces energy and light.

These stars need hydrogen to sustain their fusion reaction. When this hydrogen runs out, the main sequence stars with much more mass than the Sun explode and become neutron stars.

These explosions create some of the most beautiful images, and the image that NASA released today is one of them. This nebula shows the pulsar MS 15-52, which is part of the nebula PSR B1509-58 and was first discovered by the Chandra Observatory in 2001.