CG 4, commonly referred to as God's Hand, is a star-forming region located in the Puppis constellation, about 1300 light-years from Earth. It is a cometary globule, one side of which has been blown outwards into a long tail, resembling a comet. Its head is about 1, 5 light-years in diameter and its tail is about 8 light-years long. The mouth of the globule appears to be ready to consume the edge-on spiral galaxy ESO 257-19. In reality, the galaxy is over a hundred million light-years further away from the globule. This image was created from photographic material taken with the 1.22-metre UK Schmidt Telescope at Anglo-Australian Observatory, forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. | |
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