A giant wave of gas lurks near our solar system
Many stellar nurseries are strung along this gas thread newly dubbed the Radcliffe Wave

Many of the most well-known star-forming clouds (red dots in this illustration of the Milky Way) near the sun (yellow) actually lie along a wave of star-forming gas newly dubbed the Radcliffe Wave.
WorldWide Telescope, Courtesy of A. Goodman
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