Scientists Find Giant Ghost Hand In Deep Space

MSH 15-52 is classified as a wind nebula, which contains a powerful magnetic field, strangely in the exact shape of a skeleton hand, reaching through the emptiness of space to grasp at the void. The magnetic field has also been nicknamed by NASA astronomers, with the not-so-catchy title PSR B1509-58. According to researcher Roger Romani, who led the Stanford University study of the nebula, the magnetic field likely exists due to a collapse of a giant star, not unlike our own Sun, which ran out of fuel over 1,500 years ago, resulting in a nuclear reaction.