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<p style="text-align:justify">A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way&rsquo;s greatest secrets:&nbsp; an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun&rsquo;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 reports in Nature&nbsp;that the Radcliffe Wave not only looks like a wave, but also moves like one ...

&ldquo;Canis Major&rdquo; is Latin for &ldquo;Greater Dog&rdquo; and that is an appropriate name for the constellation in

Havana, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) With the creation of vaccines, medicines and supplies to face Covid-19 and a process of transformation in innovation and technology with government support, Cuba today celebrates Science Day.

Havana, Jan 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuban science has among its development axes the strengthening of research, training and dissemination in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, geodesy and space sciences.

Take away modern navigation tools — a smartphone or even a compass — and getting from point A to B can be tricky. Just ask the 28 students in a course on predictive systems, who were tasked with doing just that in a place many knew intimately: Harvard Yard. The assignment in Alyssa Goodman’s Gen Ed class sounded simple enough, with steps such as “head 211 feet at nine degrees east of south,” but carrying them out was challenging on several levels. “We were supposed to just use our intuition,” said Neil Khurana ’22. “We’re learning about certain navigation techniques that t...