About twenty years ago, Voyager 1 looked back toward it’s launching point and took the now famous “Pale Blue Dot” photograph. The arrow points to us. That’s Earth… from about 3.7 billion miles away, which is just a little bit outside our solar system. In the grand scale of the universe, that’s hardly any distance …
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The Hand of God?
Okay, maybe it’s the “hand” of an x-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. The image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bright object in the center is a “very young and powerful” pulsar. Check out the link for the details and a bigger image. I can SO see this being on the …