Cosmic Bubble Surrounding the Solar System (short)

Space@beehaw.org – 22 points – 12 months ago

NASA finds Strange Cosmic Bubble Around the Solar System?!

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. ⋮ 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.