Latest Breaking News On - Applied astronomy - Page 2 : comparemela.com

<p style="text-align:justify">A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way&rsquo;s greatest secrets:&nbsp; an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun&rsquo;s backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the galaxy we call home. Naming this astonishing new structure the <a href="https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/radcliffewave/home"><u>Radcliffe Wave</u></a>, the team now reports in Nature&nbsp;that the Radcliffe Wave not only looks like a wave, but also moves like one &ndash; oscillating through space-time much like &ldquo;the wave&rdquo; moving through a stadium full of fans.</p>

Robert wheeler willsonDoug finkbeinerAlyssa goodmanCatherine zuckerRalf konietzkaHarvard radcliffe instituteMethod of researchUniversity of viennaEuropean research councilNational science foundationEuropean space agency gaiaMilky wayRadcliffe instituteRadcliffe waveGraduate schoolRobert wheeler willson professor