It's not the first time a space object resembling a hand has been spotted by astronomers. In October, NASA X-ray space telescopes revealed the remains of a dead star that resembled a skeleton hand.

(CNN) — What appears to be a ghostly hand reaching across the universe toward a defenseless spiral galaxy in a new telescope image is a rarely seen cosmic phenomenon, according to astronomers. The ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...