Very cool outer space pulsar picture from NASA

[wraithfodder]

Is this just not incredible??



A quote.... "

At the center of a new image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short. The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand." Rest of article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090403181503.htm

 

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[cimmerdeux.livejournal.com]

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html

The Chandra Observatory site often has the pics set up so you can download to your desktop. It's like the Hubble Telescope site. I download a lot of pics from these places. They're very cool.

http://hubblesite.org/

Under Gallery, look under exotic; they've got some pictures worth leaving the planet for, LOL.