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Most of the star clusters in our neighbourhood come from only three star-forming regions, according to the story told by Gaia data.

Efforts to unveil the structure of the local interstellar medium and its recent star-formation history have spanned the past 70 years (refs. 1–6). Recent studies using precise data from space astrometry missions have revealed nearby, newly formed star clusters with connected origins7–12. Nonetheless, mapping young clusters across the entire sky back to their natal regions has been hindered by a lack of clusters with precise radial-velocity data. Here we show that 155 out ...

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Missing Link In 2020, astronomers revealed the existence of an incredible cosmic structure right in our galactic neighborhood called the Radcliffe Wave, a wave-shaped chain of stars and their clouds of gas and dust that stretches 9,000 light years across. Now, a new study published in the journal Nature details another revelation about this remarkable […]

From hidden giant to galactic groove machine, the Radcliffe Wave is shaking up our understanding of the Milky Way, one cosmic sway at a time

Astronomers say there's a wave rippling through our galactic neighborhood that's playing a part in the birth and death of stars.

The mysterious Radcliffe Wave, discovered as recently as 2019, is waving. New findings could shed light on its role in the Milky Way.

Radcliffe wave, which was spotted 500 light-years away snaking along a spiral arm of the Milky Way, is actually moving. Continue reading to learn more.

Astronomers have identified a Radcliffe wave, the largest coherent system in our galaxy (Ralph Konitzka/Alyssa Goodman/Global Telescope) Astronomers continue to discover strange things in space, and the latest is named after them Radcliffe wave. This wave-shaped chain of star-forming clouds is the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy: 9,000 light-years from end to end, stretching across the night sky. Canis Major up to Cygnuswith Orion in the middle. Now it turns out that the

Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it's tempting to think of the Milky Way galaxy as static and everything within it as fixed and immutable.