"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.
Whether it be an optical illusion or not, the image still appears to be shaped like a hand -- a Hand of God.
The astronomers who captured this colorful image with a NASA space telescope call it the "Hand of God."
The image that resembles to be the "Hand of God" is actually the remains of a star that exploded 17,000 light-years away.
It is a pulsar wind nebula, a dying star and the cloud of materials left over from the star after it exploded.
According to NuSTAR, the glow in the "Hand of God" is caused by the particles that are interacting with nearby magnetic fields.
NuSTAR added that the star is about 12 miles in diameter (Wow!) and spins almost seven times a second; as the star spins, it spews particles "upheaved during the star's violent death."
With these amazing objects in the infinite universe, there is indeed a "Hand of God" =)
