God’s hand in the milky way DECam captures image of cometary globule

The shapes seen in our universe arouse curiosity in scientists. We have seen the wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest observatory in space, on many occasions. This time the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has captured a series of some spectacular images. In this, a hand-like shape is seen towards a spiral galaxy. It has been given the nickname God’s Hand. The special thing is that this structure with outstretched hands is a cloud of gas and dust.

of NDTV Report According to, the DECam that captured the image is installed on the Victor M. Blanco telescope located in Chile. This camera keeps capturing images of deep space. However, such structures of gas and dust are called cometary globules.

Cometary globes were first observed in 1976. However, these structures have no connection with comets. They are dense clouds of gas and dust in space, shaped like comets with a long, glowing tail.

These clouds of gas and dust contain tiny stars in their cores. Cometary globes play an important role in the development of stars born within any galaxy.

The latest images of ‘God’s Hand’ have been captured in our own galaxy. This place is 1300 light years away from Earth in the constellation ‘Puppi’. Its main end is covered with dust and looks like a rotating hand. According to reports, the length of the main end extends up to 1.5 light years, while the long rear end extends up to 8 light years. You can understand light year as a distance in such a way that one light year is the distance that light travels in one year. This simply means that the shape seen in the picture is not small, it is billions of times bigger than we think.

The structure now appears to be approaching a distant galaxy called ESO 257-19 (PGC 21338), 100 million light years away. The camera that captured the structure is fitted on a telescope installed at an altitude of 7200 feet above sea level.