- Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (wta.org)
Formerly known as the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and renamed to honor the memory of noted activist Billy Frank Jr.,a Nisqually tribal member who fought for Native American fishing rights and was crucial in helping preserve the entire area as a refuge.
- Local Bubble (Wikipedia)
The Local Bubble, or Local Cavity, is a relative cavity in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Orion Arm in the Milky Way. It contains the closest of celestial neighbours and among others, the Local Interstellar Cloud (which contains the Solar System), the neighbouring G-Cloud, the Ursa Major moving group (the closest stellar moving group) and the Hyades (the nearest open cluster).
this research says about 5 million years
- The Local Bubble (sites.google.com)
The discovery that the 1000-light-year-wide “Local Bubble” surrounding the Sun and Earth is responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars was first presented in a paper published in Nature on January 12, 2022. Please use this page to find news, publications and talks, visuals (images, interactives, and videos), team info, and data. And, if we forgot something, just let us know—and we’ll try to include it in future updates!