Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery

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The Milky Way's spiral arm that's home to our Solar System has been found to cradle the largest gaseous structure in the galaxy - a long, thin strip of jumbled star-forming matter measuring 9,000 light-years long and 400 light-years wide."