The Victor M. Blanco Telescope's Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captured a "ghostly hand," dubbed the "Hand of God," extending from within the Milky Way toward a distant galaxy.

According to astronomers, the “Hand of God” is actually a “globular comet,” officially known as CG 4. Globose comets are a hard-to-detect subclass of so-called Bock’s globules, which are isolated, dense clouds of gas and dust. Surrounded by hot, ionized material.
Despite their name, cometary conglomerates have nothing to do with comets, but actually gained their name from the fact that material has been pulled away from these nebulae, creating a long, comet-like tail.

“Cydrocytes” are still somewhat of a mystery because the reason for their structure has not yet been definitively determined.

Scientists hypothesize that the structure of comet globules could be created by stellar winds flowing from the hot, massive stars surrounding them, or by supernovae that occur when these stars die.

The "Hand of God" is located about 1,300 light-years from Earth within our Milky Way galaxy and can be seen in the constellation Puppis.

"Cometary conglomerates" were first identified in 1976 through images taken using the British Schmidt telescope in Australia, but being faint and their tails covered in stardust that prevents light from passing through them, they make them particularly difficult targets for color photography.