Cosmic Hand Reaches for the Light By SPACE.com Staffposted: 04 April 200910:37 am ET see Pic http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imaged....Slane%2C+et+al.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. And what a strange scene this one has created.In a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, high-energy X-rays emanating from the nebula around PSR B1509-58 have been colored blue to reveal a structure resembling a hand reaching for some eternal red cosmic light. The star now spins around at the dizzying pace of seven times every second -- as pulsars do -- spewing energy into space that creates the scene. Strong magnetic fields, 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, are thought to be involved, too. The combination drives an energetic wind of electrons and ions away from the dying star. As the electrons move through the magnetized nebula, they radiate away their energy as X-rays. The red light actually a neighboring gas cloud, RCW 89, energized into glowing by the fingers of the PSR B1509-58 nebula, astronomers believe.The scene, which spans 150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked 17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).
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QUOTE (Christina @ Apr 5 2009, 01:05 AM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=71839
The scene, which spans 150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked 17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here.
so this happened before god had created the earth.what do you speculate is gods reason for creating such a vast universe with incomprehensible dynamics when we are the only life in it? or do you believe there are other life forms out in there?
The scene, which spans 150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked 17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here.
so this happened before god had created the earth.what do you speculate is gods reason for creating such a vast universe with incomprehensible dynamics when we are the only life in it? or do you believe there are other life forms out in there?
QUOTE (good times @ Apr 7 2009, 04:00 PM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=72040
so this happened before god had created the earth.what do you speculate is gods reason for creating such a vast universe with incomprehensible dynamics when we are the only life in it? or do you believe there are other life forms out in there?
The Bible never says WHEN God created the universe... just that he created itIts man that says the earth is 6000 years old ... True It was about 6000 years from Adam untill now ... No one knows how long a peroid of time passed betwwen Gen 1:1 and Gen 1 :3
so this happened before god had created the earth.what do you speculate is gods reason for creating such a vast universe with incomprehensible dynamics when we are the only life in it? or do you believe there are other life forms out in there?
The Bible never says WHEN God created the universe... just that he created itIts man that says the earth is 6000 years old ... True It was about 6000 years from Adam untill now ... No one knows how long a peroid of time passed betwwen Gen 1:1 and Gen 1 :3
You know, I'm not one to think every little thing is a sign, but this is interesting:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513038,00.htmlA crown of thorns to accompany that hand...
The Bible never says WHEN God created the universe... just that he
created itIts man that says the earth is 6000 years old ... True It was
about 6000 years from Adam untill now ... No one knows how long a peroid
of time passed betwwen Gen 1:1 and Gen 1 :3
so the gap theory raises it's head again?
Will next be a pre-Adamic race?
created itIts man that says the earth is 6000 years old ... True It was
about 6000 years from Adam untill now ... No one knows how long a peroid
of time passed betwwen Gen 1:1 and Gen 1 :3
so the gap theory raises it's head again?
Will next be a pre-Adamic race?
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