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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 of 272 (57%) high-quality young clusters13,14 within 1 kiloparsec of the Sun arise from three ...

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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