On Apr 14, 10:00*am, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/14/space.hand

Now a serious question: the CNN text does not make clear the
distinction between the blue hand and the red object. Please explain
them.

What do they mean by "1700 years old"? Is that the distance from
Earth?

TIA,

-Ramon

? The hand of God ? (thank the lord almighty for making such highly
false colorized and composite astronomy of stacked images so
mainstream eye-candy, astronomy hype and otherwise mainstream media
acceptable)
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/objects...ung-pulsar.jpg
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/b1509.jpg

With sufficient colorizing, forced hue saturations and image stacking
of whatever the human eye can't see without applied technology, almost
anything can be interpreted to suit the faith-based mindset. I bet we
could find a 56 Buick convertible surrounded by all sorts of fancy
star and cosmic stuff, if we only looked long and hard enough and took
the time to artificial colorize and stack everything in order to suit.

~ BG