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<p style="text-align:justify">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. Naming this astonishing new structure the <a href="https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/radcliffewave/home"><u>Radcliffe Wave</u></a>, the team now rep...

‘The Wave is Waving’: Harvard Astronomers Discover Radcliffe Wave’s Oscillation | News | The Harvard Crimson

Astronomers are still discovering strange things in space, and the latest is something theyve named the Radcliffe Wave.

Revelations are helping to explain the "Radcliffe Wave," a chain of star-forming clouds that the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy — 9,000 light-years from end to end.

The latest star maps are rewriting the story of our Milky Way, revealing a much more tumultuous history than astronomers suspected

At the edge of a vast region devoid of gas and dust, scientists find an explanation for “how all nearby star formation began.”