The Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We think we Know Why

Our Solar System in the center of the void.


The void was first discovered in the 70s and later observed in the 80s but its existence and our position in it has remained a mystery since then but now a team of astronomers led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have come up with a possible explanation.

A team of astronomers led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has now mapped the Local Bubble with the highest precision yet – and found that the Local Bubble was likely carved out of the interstellar medium by a series of supernova explosions millions of years ago.

This is consistent with previous studies, with an additional sting in the tail: the still-expanding Local Bubble is responsible for regions of heightened star formation at its perimeter.

"This is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby star formation began," says astronomer Catherine Zucker of the Space Telescope Science Institute, who conducted the research while at the CfA.

The Local Bubble was only discovered relatively recently, in the 1970s and 1980s, through a combination of optical, radio, and X-ray astronomy. Gradually, these surveys and observations revealed a huge region about 10 times less dense than the average interstellar medium in the Milky Way galaxy.

Since we know supernovae can carve out cavities in space, sweeping up gas and dust as they expand outwards, this seemed a reasonable explanation for the Local Bubble.
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But it seems our position in the center of the void is probably pure chance.

So why is the Solar System in the middle? Well, that's purely coincidence.

"When the first supernovae that created the Local Bubble went off, our Sun was far away from the action," says physicist and astronomer João Alves of the University of Vienna in Austria.

"But about five million years ago, the Sun's path through the galaxy took it right into the bubble, and now the Sun sits – just by luck – almost right in the Bubble's center."

According to the researchers, this suggests that the Milky Way is likely full of similar bubbles, since the likelihood of this happening is very low if the bubbles are rare. The idea evokes a Milky Way structured similarly to a sea sponge, or perhaps a flattened wheel of Swiss cheese.
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a reply to: gortex

They can never give God any credit, now it’s just “luck” they claim the sun landed right in the middle of this void.

When it’s either so incredible the only choices are God or random luck they go with the ultra scientific luck explanation.

Interesting, but why do so many modern cosmological models use cheese and bacteria waste bubbles for the laymen?

I hypothesize (rather, fantasize) that suns are sentient beings composed mostly of plasma and they are isolated due to crotchety natures... see? Nary a cultured dairy product or germ flatulence involved.

a reply to: Baddogma

I like the idea of living in a flattened wheel of Swiss cheese , it kind of makes sense of life.

It sounds sort of like how everybody tries to avoid Cleveland.

It certainly fits with the theories earth is on the proverbially other side of the tracks, it's the garbage dump of the universe, perhaps even the cosmic "Australia". The dumping grounds for eons of all the galactic refuse and scoundrels and malcontents.

or perhaps we have already been quarantined as the universal "Typhoid Mary"

a reply to: Randomname2

Let there be light?

After all, the article suggest supernova are responsible, and those are about as bright as it gets.

In an infinite universe, everything is possible.

"the first time we can explain how all nearby star formation began?".....It is just a Theory....But a theory that nobody has the credentials or money to disprove. So they can make this into reality when in essence, it probably has nothing to do with star formations...it could just be a coincidence.

I like science, but this assumption is just an assumption. Just like the big bang theory and others that cannot be proven from earth. Does it matter? Not really, if people want to believe in this stuff they have a right to.

I think we should spend the money on making sure that this ecosystem stays viable for life instead of paying people to investigate how the Universe or stars are formed, it is more practical to be preserving the quality of our environment than that kind of stuff.

But then again, that is my opinion, I am starting to sound like an environmentalist that disagrees with taxing people who make little money and giving it to the climate change czars who will give great salaries to those who agree with their meager beliefs. We are supposed to be caretakers of the earth, not destroy it to make the rich and prestigious richer and more prestigious.

Just ranting, I see too much science being twisted, I do not like when scientists twist things to fit their theories.

originally posted by: putnam6
It sounds sort of like how everybody tries to avoid Cleveland.

It certainly fits with the theories earth is on the proverbially other side of the tracks, it's the garbage dump of the universe, perhaps even the cosmic "Australia". The dumping grounds for eons of all the galactic refuse and scoundrels and malcontents.

or perhaps we have already been quarantined as the universal "Typhoid Mary"

Clearly you haven’t been here but please keep spreading that message so people stop coming here.

I like being sparsely populated in a beautiful, unique environment where people aren’t ready to kill each other based on whether you wear a silly little red hat or vote for a hair sniffing’ brain donor.

I see a lot of projection coming from people in the states.

a reply to: andy06shake

In an infinite universe, everything is possible.

Its impossible to walk to the moon

a reply to: just4fun

I think the 12 men who have walked on the moon may somewhat disagree with you there.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: just4fun

I think the 12 men who have walked on the moon may somewhat disagree with you there.

They flew to the moon

a reply to: just4fun

"Moon".

They somewhat bounced along when they got there.

I did not say they walked too the Moon. LoL

But i take your point.

originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM

originally posted by: putnam6
It sounds sort of like how everybody tries to avoid Cleveland.

It certainly fits with the theories earth is on the proverbially other side of the tracks, it's the garbage dump of the universe, perhaps even the cosmic "Australia". The dumping grounds for eons of all the galactic refuse and scoundrels and malcontents.

or perhaps we have already been quarantined as the universal "Typhoid Mary"

Clearly you haven’t been here but please keep spreading that message so people stop coming here.

I like being sparsely populated in a beautiful, unique environment where people aren’t ready to kill each other based on whether you wear a silly little red hat or vote for a hair sniffing’ brain donor.

I see a lot of projection coming from people in the states.

Come on let's not act like the "Aussies' don't give America crap as well,that said what is wrong with this historical account of Australia. Not to mention your current government sounds rather penal according to its definitions.

Britain decided to use its new outpost as a penal colony; the First Fleet of 11 ships carried about 1500 people—half of them convicts. The fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788, and it is on this day every year that Australia Day is celebrated.

In all, about 160 000 men and women were brought to Australia as convicts from 1788 until penal transportation ended in 1868. The convicts were joined by free immigrants from the early 1790s. The wool industry and the gold rushes of the 1850s provided an impetus for free settlers to come to Australia.

penal
pē′nəl
adjective
Of, relating to, or prescribing punishment, as for breaking the law.
Subject to punishment; legally punishable.
Serving as or constituting a means or place of punishment.

Believe it or not there are those that already believe that stars are sentient beings! They believe they communicate with each other and even travel in a type of herd mentality. Essentially space sheep...

a reply to: Baddogma

The first thing that came to mind, seeing that picture?
Our solar system is inside a cell, of some living being.

a reply to: gortex

An interesting topic. That might explain why in space you cant see so many stars.

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM

originally posted by: putnam6
It sounds sort of like how everybody tries to avoid Cleveland.

It certainly fits with the theories earth is on the proverbially other side of the tracks, it's the garbage dump of the universe, perhaps even the cosmic "Australia". The dumping grounds for eons of all the galactic refuse and scoundrels and malcontents.

or perhaps we have already been quarantined as the universal "Typhoid Mary"

Clearly you haven’t been here but please keep spreading that message so people stop coming here.

I like being sparsely populated in a beautiful, unique environment where people aren’t ready to kill each other based on whether you wear a silly little red hat or vote for a hair sniffing’ brain donor.

I see a lot of projection coming from people in the states.

Come on let's not act like the "Aussies' don't give America crap as well,that said what is wrong with this historical account of Australia. Not to mention your current government sounds rather penal according to its definitions.

Britain decided to use its new outpost as a penal colony; the First Fleet of 11 ships carried about 1500 people—half of them convicts. The fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788, and it is on this day every year that Australia Day is celebrated.

In all, about 160 000 men and women were brought to Australia as convicts from 1788 until penal transportation ended in 1868. The convicts were joined by free immigrants from the early 1790s. The wool industry and the gold rushes of the 1850s provided an impetus for free settlers to come to Australia.

penal
pē′nəl
adjective
Of, relating to, or prescribing punishment, as for breaking the law.
Subject to punishment; legally punishable.
Serving as or constituting a means or place of punishment.

What!? Convicts!? In Australia!?

Well, this changes everything! I was until your post completely unaware that our fore-fathers were sent here in chains by the ever so gracious royals.

Whilst there were certainly some bad characters among them many were sent here for such minor crimes as stealing bread to feed their families in the impoverished industrial wastelands of London and elsewhere in the UK, espousing Irish nationalistic sentiments and whatever other arbitrary minor infractions the crown deemed because they needed a free source of labour in the new colony.

You speak about it like we should be ashamed but we’re not.

And yes our government sucks. So does yours and basically everyone else’s.

What’s your obsession with Australia? I already had to correct you in another thread when you claimed we don’t have guns and now you claim it’s a garbage dump. Take the advice again from someone who actually lives here

originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM

originally posted by: putnam6
It sounds sort of like how everybody tries to avoid Cleveland.

It certainly fits with the theories earth is on the proverbially other side of the tracks, it's the garbage dump of the universe, perhaps even the cosmic "Australia". The dumping grounds for eons of all the galactic refuse and scoundrels and malcontents.

or perhaps we have already been quarantined as the universal "Typhoid Mary"

Clearly you haven’t been here but please keep spreading that message so people stop coming here.

I like being sparsely populated in a beautiful, unique environment where people aren’t ready to kill each other based on whether you wear a silly little red hat or vote for a hair sniffing’ brain donor.

I see a lot of projection coming from people in the states.

Come on let's not act like the "Aussies' don't give America crap as well,that said what is wrong with this historical account of Australia. Not to mention your current government sounds rather penal according to its definitions.

Britain decided to use its new outpost as a penal colony; the First Fleet of 11 ships carried about 1500 people—half of them convicts. The fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788, and it is on this day every year that Australia Day is celebrated.

In all, about 160 000 men and women were brought to Australia as convicts from 1788 until penal transportation ended in 1868. The convicts were joined by free immigrants from the early 1790s. The wool industry and the gold rushes of the 1850s provided an impetus for free settlers to come to Australia.

penal
pē′nəl
adjective
Of, relating to, or prescribing punishment, as for breaking the law.
Subject to punishment; legally punishable.
Serving as or constituting a means or place of punishment.

What!? Convicts!? In Australia!?

Well, this changes everything! I was until your post completely unaware that our fore-fathers were sent here in chains by the ever so gracious royals.

Whilst there were certainly some bad characters among them many were sent here for such minor crimes as stealing bread to feed their families in the impoverished industrial wastelands of London and elsewhere in the UK, espousing Irish nationalistic sentiments and whatever other arbitrary minor infractions the crown deemed because they needed a free source of labour in the new colony.

You speak about it like we should be ashamed but we’re not.

And yes our government sucks. So does yours and basically everyone else’s.

What’s your obsession with Australia? I already had to correct you in another thread when you claimed we don’t have guns and now you claim it’s a garbage dump. Take the advice again from someone who actually lives here

Sounds like the kind of grudge a prisoner would hold, and not a civilized citizen.

Are you really getting upset that I used a metaphor about Australia describing that perhaps aliens use earth as a place to dump undesirables?

Hyper patriotism or hypersensitivity or something, cause about 30 people may read this thread and even less will remember it, but I am flattered however one of them will be all the way on the other side of the world.

originally posted by: chiefsmom
The first thing that came to mind, seeing that picture?
Our solar system is inside a cell, of some living being.

That's weird so did I, and unfortunately, we may be the appendix.

a reply to: gortex

Thanks for posting this.
I wonder how this 1/10th density is affecting life on earth since we entered the void 5 million years ago.