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The Solar System Passed Through a Massive Cosmic Wave Millions of Years Ago — And This May Have Cooled EarthThe Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
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A giant extraterrestrial 'wave' hit Earth 14 million years ago — and may have dramatically altered our planet's climateThis region is part of a vast network of star clusters that spans nearly 9,000 light-years and is sculpted into a structure that astronomers have dubbed the Radcliffe Wave in honor of the Harvard ...
As New Scientist reports, astrophysicists have discovered that the Radcliffe wave — a 9,000 light-year-long structure full of stars and the gas and dust needed to form new ones — seems to have ...
How the Radcliffe Wave moves through the backyard of our sun (yellow dot). Blue dots are clusters of baby stars. The white line is a theoretical model by Ralf Konietzka and collaborators that ...
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 ...
A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago. As New Scientist reports, astrophysicists have discovered that the Radcliffe ...
Comparing that data to estimates about our Solar System's trajectory, the Vienna researchers found that the Sun and the Radcliffe wave were near each other between 12 and 15 million years ago.
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