black holes, exploding stars, magnetic fields and inexplicable bubbles of gas. Now, using data from two such telescopes — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa — researchers just pieced together the most comprehensive picture yet of our galaxy's center. The result is a glorious tangle of orange, green and purple X-ray emissions, intertwined with tendrils of ghostly gray radio signals. This image is an "unprecedented" view of the galactic center, plus the mysterious structures towering above and below it, "The new panorama of the galactic center builds on previous surveys from Chandra and other telescopes," the researchers wrote in the statement. "This latest version expands Chandra's high-energy view farther above and below the plane of the galaxy — that is, the disk where most of the galaxy's stars reside" — than any previous imaging campaign, combining 370 separate observations from Chandra, the team added.