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Harvard University

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Caption

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 collaborators that explains the current shape and motion of the wave. The magenta and green lines show how the wave will move in the future. 

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Ralf Konietzka, Alyssa Goodman, and WorldWide Telescope

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