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Astronomers discover that massive Radcliffe Wave is oscillating
Scientists have shed new light on the Radcliffe Wave, which was discovered in 2019 by astronomers studying data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. The Radcliffe Wave is a massive wave ...
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Astronomers say mysterious galactic ‘wave’ may have once washed over Earth
Astronomers are still discovering strange things in space, and the latest is something they’ve named the Radcliffe Wave. This wave-shaped chain of star-forming clouds is the largest coherent ...
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An international group of astronomers led by a Harvard PhD student reported their discovery that the Radcliffe Wave — a nine-thousand-light-year-long gaseous structure in the Milky Way — moves ...
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Vast 'star nursery' region found in our galaxy
The monolithic structure has been dubbed the Radcliffe Wave, in honour of Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "What we've observed is the ...
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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 ...