<ul><li>Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes have discovered a fracture in a cosmic 'bone' in the Milky Way galaxy likely caused by a fast-moving, rapidly spinning neutron star.</li><li>The fracture in the cosmic 'bone' was identified in an image of G359.13, also known as the Snake, with combined X-ray data from Chandra and radio data from the MeerKAT radio array in South Africa.</li><li>The researchers believe the fracture was caused by a pulsar colliding with G359.13 at speeds between one to two million miles per hour, distorting the magnetic field and warping the radio signal.</li><li>The discovery was detailed in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, with Farhad Yusuf-Zadeh from Northwestern University being one of the study's authors.</li></ul>

NASA’s Chandra Diagnoses Cause of Fracture in Galactic “Bone”

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