Cosmologists find 9,000-light-year-long wave-shaped structure in Milky Way
The newfound structure — named ‘Radcliffe Wave’ to pay tribute to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study — is around 9,000 light-years long and 400 light-years wide. It contains around 3,000,000 solar masses of gas and involves most of the close by star-forming regions. Some