NASA has unveiled a skeletal hand in the eerie expanse of MSH 15-52. In a Halloween-worthy cosmic revelation, NASA's "spooktacular" Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has ventured into the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — NASA has released images of a pulsar wind nebula, referred to as MSH 15-52, which closely resembles a ghostly cosmic hand. Using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, NASA ...

In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA’s X-ray ...

The "bone" is actually a galactic center filament, and it's about 230 light-years long. Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Located 16,000 light-years from Earth, MSH 15-52 was first observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2001. The pulsar PSR B1509-58 is located at the base of the "palm" of MSH 15-52 and ...

The composite image showcases MSH 15-52 as observed by Nasa's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope and the IXPE space telescope. It reveals peculiar structures that mirror the bones in a human hand.