MEXICO: Scientists are static with the new picture captured by the European Southern Observatory’s “Very Large Telescope”. It captured an image of the Hand of God.
The Hand of God or “Maw of the Beast” lies around 1,300 light years away from the planet Earth.
The image was captured by VLT, a program designed to capture space images for education and classroom purposes. The VLT operates at the Paranal Observatory. The program is called “Cosmic Gems.”
For the “Cosmic Gems” program, the Very Large Telescope used VIMOS and FORS2 spectrographs for its images. It also uses Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla to make the images appear better.
According to experts, the Hand of God is a dusty cloud is located in the constellation Puppis. Scientifically, the name of the cloud is Cometary Globule CG4. The cloud had been captured in images before but the current one from VLT showed such brilliant amount of sharpness.
Another image from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory was released as well. The image from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory was taken with a 64-megapixel mosaic imaging camera in the National Science Foundation’s Victor M. Blanco telescope.
A not so clear image from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array was released before but the photo does not clearly show the brilliance of the “hand of god.”
There had been a lot if images and some even created a video of the Hand of God but so far, nothing beats the newest image that “Very Large Telescope” (VLT) captured.
