{"id":280881,"date":"2024-05-13T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=332241"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:31:17","slug":"that-is-the-spectacular-and-colossal-hand-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/that-is-the-spectacular-and-colossal-hand-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"That is the spectacular and colossal “Hand of God”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A series of new and astonishing images captured by the Dark Energy Camera<\/strong>, installed in the Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Inter-American Observatory<\/strong> in Cerro Tololo, Chile, reveal an interstellar structure known as the “Hand of God”<\/a><\/strong>. Located in the Puppis constellation<\/strong>, 1,300 light-years away from Earth, this formation, officially named CG 4<\/strong>, resembles a ghostly hand reaching out into the cosmos towards a nearby spiral galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab)<\/strong> describes CG 4, a cometary globule<\/strong>, as “turbid and ominous,” highlighting its distinctive shape which is the source of its divine nickname. Cometary globules are dark nebulae<\/a> composed of a high concentration of dust, known as Bok globules<\/strong>. Although their name suggests a connection to comets, their real connection is the similarity in their extended “tails.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hand of God, with a “claw” that extends 1.5 light years and a tail of 8 light years<\/strong>, is one of the numerous comet-like globules present in the Milky Way<\/a><\/strong>. Although its appearance could suggest a threat to the spiral galaxy ESO 257-19<\/strong>, located more than 100 million light years away, the latter is at a safe distance from the claws of the colossal structure.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The CG 4 and other comet-like globules are mostly found within the Gum Nebula<\/strong>, a vast region of bright gas that hosts at least 31 of these structures<\/strong>, along with CG 4. It is believed that these globules are remnants of a supernova that occurred approximately one million years ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The observation of the Hand of God offers astronomers a unique opportunity<\/strong> to study the formation and evolution of these intriguing interstellar structures. Although similar ones have been sighted throughout the Milky Way, CG 4 stands out for its distinctive shape and its relative proximity to the spiral galaxy ESO 257-19, making it an object of great interest for astronomical research.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A series of new and astonishing images captured by the Dark Energy Camera, installed in the Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Inter-American Observatory in Cerro Tololo, Chile, reveal an interstellar structure known as the “Hand of God”. Located in the Puppis constellation, 1,300 light-years away from Earth, this formation, officially named CG 4, resembles … Continue reading “That is the spectacular and colossal “Hand of God””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":280882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-280881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313229,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280881\/revisions\/313229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280881"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=280881"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=280881"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=280881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}