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NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory

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NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images our home galaxy.

A recent scan caught something that might be familiar to some of you: a fractured "bone" The bone-like structure in the image was imaged using radio data from MeerKAT radio array in South Africa and the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array in New Mexico .

The likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star.

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