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

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images our home galaxy, and a recent scan caught something that might be familiar to some of you: a fractured “bone.”

The bone-like structure in the image above was imaged using radio data from MeerKAT radio array in South Africa and the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array in New Mexico — you’ll notice a slight fracture in the structure a little more than a third of the way down.