Astronomers Successfully Record Giant “Cosmic Hand”, Here’s the Scientific Explanation

Hitekno.com – One of the observatories of NASA make astronomer can record amazing pictures on outer space. Looks like “cosmic hand“Giant, this is an interesting sight from the measurement of movement supernova.

This image of the “cosmic hand” was recorded by Chandra X-Ray Observatory belonging to NASA. Using data from 2004, 2008, as well as combined images from 2017 and 2018, astronomers have revealed images of a giant hand moving through space to hit a wall of red cosmic gas.

Supernova itself is a super energetic explosion of a star that is at a certain point in its life cycle.

Channel YouTube Chandra X-ray Observatory share some views of the cosmic collection in the form of hands that seem to hit a red wall.

“Astronomers have caught a ‘cosmic hand’ hitting the wall. This hand is actually the energy of the nebula and the particles generated by the pulsar. As the blast wave from the exploding star travels through space, it runs into the gas cloud,” tulis channel YouTube Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The result is from the recording Chandra X-ray Observatory owned by NASA for 14 years. Reported from IFLScience, the images show the movement of the blast wave around one of the “fingertips”.

This blast wave travels through space at a speed of about 14.5 million kilometers per hour.

Some of the stellar remnants, which are left behind as cosmic debris when they become supernovae, are moving faster, at speeds of more than 17.7 million km per hour.

According to a study from Chandra’s team published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, although very fast in the human eye, this cosmic hand is actually experiencing a dramatic slowdown.

Astronomers have named this cosmic hand sight MSH 15-52. The cosmic debris is decelerating most likely due to RCW 89, the gas cloud that collided with it.

According to the team, the cosmic debris must first travel through a cavity of low-density gas, which forms when a star sheds its outer layer of hydrogen before exploding, then slows down dramatically when it hits RCW 89.

Scientists estimate that the MSH 15-52 should travel on average at nearly 50 million km/h. For the record, those are average speeds, not max.

When a star explodes, it leaves behind a super-dense pulsar. This pulsar (the collapsing core of a massive star, spinning rapidly and spewing energy into space) is the cause of the giant cosmic hand. It rotates at nearly seven revolutions per second and releases an incredible amount of energy into the cosmos around it.

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