It is up to 400 light-years deep and 9,000 light-years long, undulating nearly a tenth of the way across the Milky Way's diameter. At its closest to us, the wave is just 500 light-years away.

Spanning about 9,000 light-years (or about 9% of the galaxy's diameter), the unbroken wave of stars begins near Orion in a trough about 500 light-years below the Milky Way's disk. The wave swoops ...

Languages; English. An enormous wave has been discovered in the Milky Way that may have formed as a result of a collision with a massive mystery object—potentially a clump of dark matter ...

"No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas—or that it forms the Local Arm of the Milky Way," said Alyssa ... group contributed deep expertise on stars ...

NASA/CXC/SAO/E.Bulbul, et al. and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Stephen Walker et al. An international team of astronomers has discovered a vast wave of hot gas twice the size of the Milky Way.

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

Astronomy Space photo of the week: The chaotic heart of the Milky Way like you've never ... diffraction spikes because of the way light travels as a wave from the 18 hexagonal mirrors in the ...

This wave is about twice the size of our Milky Way Galaxy and scientists think they know what caused it. Billions of years ago a small galaxy cluster must have grazed Perseus causing the massive ...

Astronomy experts have detected "unusual signals" coming from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy ... When the radio wave was first picked up, Tara Murphy, Wang's doctoral supervisor and professor ...

this wave is roiling through an extremely hot gas cloud in the Perseus cluster and stretches 200,000 light-years across, meaning it's twice the size of the Milky Way galaxy. The classic image of a ...

And third, you're moving because the sun and the rest of our solar system is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at over ... Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support ...