{"id":666,"date":"2009-04-14T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2009-04-14T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:40:34","slug":"the-hand-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/the-hand-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hand of God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-667\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-667\" title=\"Nebula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nebula001.jpg\" alt=\"Click to embiggen\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to embiggen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay, maybe it&#8217;s the &#8220;hand&#8221; of\u00c2\u00a0 an <a title=\"A Young Pulsar Shows Its Hand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">x-ray nebula that spans 150 light years<\/a>. The image was taken by NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bright object in the center is a &#8220;very young and powerful&#8221; pulsar. Check out the link for the details and a bigger image.<\/p>\n<p>I can SO see this being on the view screen of the Enterprise bridge&#8230; right before the shields fail and really bad things start to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, maybe it&#8217;s the &#8220;hand&#8221; of\u00c2\u00a0 an x-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. The image was taken by NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bright object in the center is a &#8220;very young and powerful&#8221; pulsar. Check out the link for the details and a bigger image. I can SO see this being on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/the-hand-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hand of God?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[82,396,547,557,583,647,758,828],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-hand-of-god","tag-nasa","tag-nebula","tag-observatory","tag-pulsar","tag-space","tag-universe","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}