This is a pulsar named PSR B1509-58. Here’s a larger photo, taken by Nasa’s Chandra observatory in orbit. Matthew Moore writes, “Although the pulsar itself is only 12 miles in diameter, the cloud or nebula that it produces stretches across 150 light years of space. Neutron stars are created when standard stars run out of fuel and collapse, and Nasa believes that the one pictured is rotating around seven times a second.” The redness for which the hand is reaching is a neighboring gas cloud. Space is beautiful. What a wonder God has made.