The Radcliffe Wave — a 9,000-light-year-long stream of star-forming gas (red) — swerves through the Milky Way in this visualization. The yellow dot marks Earth's sun, which may crash into the ...

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, which has a straight, sinusoidal structure, contains stellar nurseries originally believed to be part of Gould’s Belt, disproving the previous theory that they form a ring.

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 ...

The Radcliffe wave, they found, was one enormous, long filament. It stretches 9,000 light years in length and 400 in width. It was also found to go 500 light years above and below the mid plane of ...

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 ...