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If you're wondering what the Radcliffe Wave is like I was, from the article: > A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets:
by eganist 3y ago
If you're wondering what the Radcliffe Wave is like I was, from the article:
> A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: An enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun's backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the galaxy we call home.
Tldr: the clouds both look like a wave and move like waves too (analogized to wave-like motions in stadiums). Which is pretty neat. They speculate it's because of gravitational interactions.
More: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07127-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07127-3