We've already seen pictures of his eye... now we have the first image of the hand of God.
The ghostly blue cloud seems to form an outstretched thumb and fingers grasping a burning lump of coal.
This astonishing image was taken by Nasa's Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting 360 miles above the Earth's surface. It recalls those of the Helix planetary nebula, whose blue centre surrounded by white clouds earned it the nickname 'the eye of God'.
The hand was created when a star exploded in a supernova, creating a rapidly-spinning 12-mile-wide star called a pulsar, which is deep inside the white blob at the hand's wrist.
The pulsar is spewing out enormous amounts of electromagnetic energy, creating a dust and gas cloud so wide that it would take a light beam 150 years to cross from side to side. The red disc is a separate cloud of gas. The fingers are thought to have been created as the energy passed from the pulsar to this gas cloud.
Nasa scientists estimate the moment depicted here actually happened 17,000 years ago.
It has taken since then for the X-rays, travelling at 670million mph, to reach Earth.
Elephants are known for their sharp memories, now a study has found that they are excellent at maths as well.
A researcher in Japan found an Asian elephant called Ashya was able to add small numbers together with almost 90 per cent accuracy.
Naoko Irie of the University of Tokyo in Japan found the matriarch was able to recognise which of two buckets contained more apples in an experiment. A trainer dropped three apples into one bucket and one apple into a second, then four more apples in the first and five more in the second.
It was observed that the 31-year-old elephant recognised that three plus four was greater than one plus five, and snacked on the seven apples. 'I even get confused when I”m dropping the bait,' Irie tod New Scientist magazine.
Ms Irie was surprised to find the large mammals were as successful in telling between five and six apples as they were between five and one.
She told the International Society for Behavioral Ecology that she had tested four elephants and found they picked the bucket with the most fruit 74 per cent of the time.
'It really is tough to figure out why (elephants) would need to count,' ecologist Mya Thompson said about the research.
Watch Ashya count her apples...
She believes counting may be helpful for Asian elephants, which live in close-knit groups of six to eight, in ensuring that the entire herd stays together.
'You really don”t want to lose your group members,' she said.
The red disc is a separate cloud of gas. The fingers are thought to have been created as the energy passed from the pulsar to this gas cloud.
