The Radcliffe Wave.

[Herault Manse]

Hello wonderful people,

Apologies for the roughshod nature of the post, but imagine scientists/amateur enthousiasts spilling coffee/pizza over their equipment and then gloss on over to the reading material!

This seems like something that would be relevant/interesting to our community at large.

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Where I first read about it

As soon as I get a chance I'll be diving into the Galactic Map to see what can be seen, but I'm an enthousiast at best, and maybe previous community efforts have already turned up relevant data?

Happy reading and discuss !

H.M.

 

[Sapyx]

Unfortunately, there is no such thing in ED as a "star-forming region" - protostars are scattered randomly about the galaxy, and are not connected to nebulae as they would be out there in the real galaxy.

Nebulae in ED likewise are not connected to each other, nor do they have any direct relationship to the stars around them and inside them. Out there in the real universe, nebulae are visible only because the nearby big,bright stars are lighting them up, and in many cases the nebulae that we can see are likely just parts of a much larger structure that we cannot see because there are no other big, bright stars there to illuminate them.

Imagine two streetlights sitting some distance apart in the middle of a forest. At night, you can see the lights, and the trees immediately surrounding the lights. But you can't see the rest of the forest, because there's only the two streetlights. You cannot see that what appear to be two separate clumps of trees are actually connected and part of a single vast forest. That's how it is out there in the galaxy with real-world nebulae; the "forest" is the Radcliffe Wave, a vast invisible structure connecting the visible nebulae together.

But carrying this analogy over to ED, in ED all we have are the clumps of trees; the streetlights, if present at all, were hand-placed inside the clumps of trees but the trees are magically illuminating themselves, with or without the presence of streetlights. Some streetlights (like Eta Carinae) have been put in the "wrong place" and are over a thousand light-years away from the trees they are purportedly right next to and illuminating. And there is no dark forest connecting the clumps of trees together.

There are "dark dust fields" scattered about the ED galaxy, but the dust generator is essentially random and would not have been programmed to create dust clouds in the shape and location of the Radclidffe Wave.

So I fear you will not find evidence of the Radcliffe Wave in ED, apart from a possible alignment of nebulae.

 

[Lance Corrimal]

I was going to head out and see what can be seen, too, but I guess there's not much point, seeing how the E universe is made...

 

[Orvidius]

It's still worth going out and seeing things. It's just that they modeled some things and not others. I'm actually impressed by how much they tried to get right, even if they did overlook a lot of other things.