21 Feb 2024
A huge gaseous structure situated in our local neighborhood of the Milky Way, the Radcliffe wave does in fact curve wavelike around the galactic plain while drifting slowly away from the center of the galaxy.
Have you ever discovered a “new” place in your neighborhood, perhaps a lovely café or a pretty garden, and then realized that it has been there for a long time and you just never really looked? This is what happened to the astrophysicists who, four years ago, accidentally discovered a gigantic, coherent, wave-shaped gas structure in the vicinity of the Sun.