The Radcliffe Wave was named in honor of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in 2020, when its undulation was discovered by a fellow affiliated with the institute at the time.

The Radcliffe Wave is the largest single structure of gas known to astronomy. It is up to 400 light-years deep and 9,000 light-years long, undulating nearly a tenth of the way across the Milky Way ...

The Radcliffe Wave next to our sun (yellow dot), inside a cartoon model of the Milky Way. Blue dots are clusters of baby stars. The white line is a theoretical model by Ralf Konietzka and ...

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 Radcliffe Wave continues to wrap around constellations like Taurus and Perseus, peaking around Cepheus, and wrapping around again. According to study co-author João Alves, ...

Doing the Wave. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, [authors] tracked how the bright young star clusters within the Radcliffe Wave were moving — in all three ...

Even though the Radcliffe Wave resides in our galactic backyard, at just 400 light-years away, astronomers just noticed it in 2020 thanks to the Gaia telescope's ability to pinpoint the distances ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has revealed that the Solar System passed through the complex Orion star-forming region, a structure linked to the so-called ...

Feb 25, 2025: The galactic journey of our solar system Our sun and its planets crossed the Radcliffe Wave in the well-known Orion complex. (Nanowerk News) An international research team led by the ...

News; Nation/World; Astronomers say mysterious galactic ‘wave’ may have once washed over Earth Feb. 20, 2024 Updated Tue., Feb. 20, 2024 at 1:04 p.m. An illustration shows the Radcliffe Wave ...