Coincidence

The other day, as I was sitting on the couch and watching a movie, my roommate showed me an article on the internet that said :

"Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows. So it is with PSR B1509-58, which long ago collapsed into a sphere just 12 miles in diameter after running out of fuel"

Click on the link to see what the pulsar looked like:


http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090404-chandra-nebula-02.jpg&cap=Red+represents+low-energy+X-rays%2C+the+medium+range+is+green%2C+and+the+most+energetic+ones+are+colored+blue.+The+blue+hand-like+structure+was+created+by+energy+emanating+from+the+nebula+around+they+dying+star+PSR+B1509-58.+The+red+areas+are+from+a+neighboring+gas+cloud+called+RCW+89.+Credit%3A+NASA%2FCXC%2FSAO%2FP.Slane%2C+et+al.


It's an image of a hand reaching for a nebula!

It's really cool to see things like this in nature. It may just be a coincidence, and then again, it may not. But bear in mind, that this pulsar happened more than 17,000 years ago. It was over 150 light years away and is just now reaching us. That's pretty crazy. "And worlds without number have I created...." Just think about that!

Anyway, just thought you'd all like to see that.