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NASA shares pic of 'hand-shaped' space cloud formed after a star exploded
short by Sakshita Khosla / on Sunday, 26 September, 2021
NASA has shared a picture of a nebula (interstellar cloud) which is shaped like a hand and said that it was blown by a pulsar, which is a magnetised rotating compact star. The pulsar was left behind when a star exploded, NASA said, adding, "The pulsar...is about 19 kilometres in diameter and it's spinning around almost 7 times per second!"
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