<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#00ffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df3d8a19-6de0-4acb-b9b2-7766d3006c84/18995AF2-A5D7-4154-99B7-14F2EC58589B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo.html">Pulsar Creates Cosmic "Hand"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo.html"><H1 class="newsTitle"></H1> <DIV class="photoGalleryImage"> <DIV class="photoGalleryImage"> <TABLE width="100" border="0" align="center"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top" colspan="2"><IMG width="461" height="461" border="0" alt="pulsar hand nebula picture" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/images/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo_big.jpg" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo.html"><P><B></B>A new x-ray image has revealed an unusual hand-shaped nebula that brings a whole new meaning to the expression "reach for the stars." </P><P> NASA's <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/main/index.html">Chandra X-ray Observatory</A> recently snapped this shot of energetic particles streaming from a pulsar—the rapidly rotating core left behind after a very massive star exploded as a <A href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/supernovae-article.html">supernova</A>. </P><P> Known as B1509, the pulsar is thought to be about 1,700 years old and lies roughly 17,000 light-years from Earth. </P><P> The tiny pulsar is just 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) wide. But it is spinning so fast—it makes seven complete rotations every second—that the particles it spews have created a nebula spanning 150 light-years. </P><P> The pulsar's rapid rotation likely helped create the nebula's odd shape. Its finger-like pillars appear to be transferring energy to a nearby gas cloud, which glows orange and red in x-rays. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/18995AF2-A5D7-4154-99B7-14F2EC58589B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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