Since ancient times, the Ancestors Men have raised their eyes to heaven Wide space. There are many ancient traditions based on them Divine Arts and prophetic actions in direct observation of the elements universe.
He Human brainIn order to survive, it has evolved to be able to Identify shapes and patterns clearly visible in the world around them. however, The mind often deceives, and illustrates the presence of objects, animals, or figures with only abstract lines. Everyone has played at some point to find some resemblance to clouds, the veins of a tile, or the stains on a wall.
In this case, it has been looked at by a panel of experts A strange figure In an exercise SpaceThus connecting intuition Human nature with the scientific method and astronomy.
They see the “hand of God” directed toward the universe
The NASA reported an interesting structure viewed from Dark Energy Chamber of the Cerro Dololo Observatory (DECam) ChileAs part of the NOIRLab project.
This spatial cluster is located at approx 1,300 light years Forms part of the Earth A constellation of puppies. It has the appearance of a ghostly hand reaching out from space dust towards the cosmos.
As NASA told EuropaPress, this “Hand of God” It is a type of structure already known and characterized by astronomers. It’s about a A cluster of comets Known by the acronym “CG 4,” it’s a cloudy and ominous formation that’s one of several already identified groups of comets scattered across the Milky Way.
What is the “hand of God” made of?
These cometary globules are a subspecies Dark nebulae are known as “Poke Globules”A type of isolation cloud consists of dense gas and cosmic dust and is surrounded by extremely hot, ionized material.
In some cases, there is a Material releasesIt creates a kind of Koalas It stretches into space and resembles comets.
Images taken by the Dark Energy Camera from Chile allow us to identify all the properties that make up CG 4 in the group. Comet blood cells.
These, among others, are theirs the head of Stardusthas a diameter of 1.5 light yearsand its length Cola and dim, which is calculated to be approx Eight light years along its length. hand of god”Then there will be only one Little Boke globule compared to other spatial structures of its species.
How comets can observe blood cells
These types of space objects are very difficult for scientists to capture because they are so faint. Also, the Dark stardust Their tails often block the passage of all light. They were observed for the first time 1976From images obtained by the UK Schmidt Telescope located in Australia.
A dark energy camera or decam is capable of capturing a faint red glow. Ionized hydrogen It is located on the tail and outer edge of CG 4, thanks to that Hydrogen-alpha filter. This kind of light can only be seen when radiation from nearby hot stars ignites hydrogen in the “hand of God”.
Although this comet sphere is small in size, it has enough gas to feed Active training of many New stars The same size as the Sun.
Where are these structures located? Supernebula
Boke globules are distributed throughout the Milky Way, although most of them are within the known, including the “Hand of God”. “Misty Gum”A titanic stain Glowing gasAt least 31 other cometary globules have been observed in addition to CG 4.
According to EuropaPress, this giant nebula is believed to be nothing Remnants of a supernova What happened before A million years And it continues to expand. Although it is not known why these blood cells take their characteristic shapes, there are two main hypotheses supported by scientists.
“Hand of God” appearance
The first explanation given by science is that these structures are similar Spherical nebulaeCould be the Ring Nebula, but it was affected by a Supernova explosion Nearby, it could be the same explosion that created the Gum Nebula.
A second hypothesis put forward in this regard states that cometary globules of this type are formed by vStellar forces and radiation pressure Comes from nearby hot massive stars. The tails of all cometary spheres observed within the Gum Nebula appear to be moving away from their tail center. Supernova Vela Remnant And this Pulsar de Vela.
This pulsar de vela is a star Neutrons Spinning at high speeds, it forms after the collapse of a massive star, and the stellar wind and radiation pressure shape the cometary globules around it.
