X-ray telescopes reveal 'bones' in ghost-like 'cosmic hand' nebula

Astronomers unveiled new details about ghostly pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52, also called the 'cosmic hand' or 'hand of God', using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The data offers first magnetic field map of the 'hand,' revealing that charged particles traveling along the magnetic field shape the nebula, much like bones structure a human hand.