The Sun Could Be Dragging Earth Through a Vast Cosmic Tunnel In Space - Newsweek

If correct, the theory could explain the appearance in the sky of two rope-like structures in the Milky Way whose origins are currently uncertain.

The research corresponds with previous studies that have suggested the NPS is highly magnetized, and other observational studies of these radio bright structures.

The authors suggest that these cosmic ropes of gas are long, magnetized, and parallel filamentary structures that surround the Local Bubble of the Milky Way in which the Sun is embedded like a tunnel.

The authors believe this new suggestion could help explain the increasingly common discovery of radio-bright rope-like structures and could give us a better handle on magnetism in the wider Milky Way.

"These very nearby structures also provide context to help understand similar non-thermal, filamentary structures that are increasingly being observed with modern radio telescopes.".

West told Vice that this new unified approach to tackling the mysteries of filamentary structures in the Milky Way required her to look at our galaxy from a new angle, both figuratively and literally.