Mastodawn

Matt Willemsen Feb 22, 2024

A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mysterious-wave-like-structure-in-our-galaxy-found-to-be-slowly-slithering #astronomy #MilkyWay #galaxy #gaia #RadcliffeWave #slithering #NotGryffindor

A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering

Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it's tempting to think of the Milky Way galaxy as static and everything within it as fixed and immutable.

ScienceAlert

Jake in the desert Feb 20, 2024

Mysterious wave-like structure in our galaxy, the Radcliffe Wave (a wave of star-forming gas that's 9,000 light years in length) found to be slowly slithering in a whip-like movement

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mysterious-wave-like-structure-in-our-galaxy-found-to-be-slowly-slithering

#space #science #weird #RadcliffeWave #TheRadcliffWave #strange #slithering

A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering

Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it's tempting to think of the Milky Way galaxy as static and everything within it as fixed and immutable.

ScienceAlert