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Pulsar G359 - Galactic ‘Bone’
May 18 , 2025
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- Astronomers have discovered a huge fracture in the cosmic bone of the Milky Way galaxy.
- X-ray data from Chandra and radio data from the MeerKAT radio array in South Africa show the cosmic bone dubbed G359.13 by NASA.
- The fracture is likely caused by a pulsar that smashed into G359.13 at a speed between one million and two million miles per hour.
- At about 230 light-years long, G359.13 is one of the longest and brightest of these structures in the Milky Way.
- G359.13 is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth, near the centre of the Milky Way.
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