Outer space is anything but empty and has far more anatomy than many would expect! Our universe may not be the jungle it once was but like a desert, you just need to know how and where to find its dynamic activity.
I watched the video, and frankly I have to say it comes off as not much more than just pop-sci clickbait.
Firstly, the Local Bubble is not a newly discovered thing.
And secondly, it’s not at all weird that we’re set in the center of it. That’s what happens when you travel through a space. Our route is nothing more than a coincidence.
From the 2022-01-22 New York Times article, “A New Map of the Sun’s Local Bubble”:
Astronomers have long recognized the Local Bubble. What is new, said Alyssa Goodman, a member of the team also from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is the observation that all local star forming-regions lie on the Local Bubble’s surface. Researchers previously lacked the tools to map gas and dust clouds in three dimensions. “Thanks to 3-D dust-mapping, now we do,” Dr. Goodman said.
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The sun’s presence in this one is nonetheless coincidental, Dr. Alves said. Our star wandered into the region only 5 million years ago, long after most of the action, and will exit about 5 million years from now.
It’s super awesome news and fascinating to boot, but no need to hype it up as some wonderous thing with quasi-spiritual implications.
Edit: Punctuation.
