Interstellar "Tunnel" Found that Connects our Solar System to Other Stars

According to a report at earth.com, "After years of careful mapping, a new analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant constellations."

Hard to believe, yet a group of researchers led by Dr. L. L. Sala has confirmed it, according to their report in Astronomy Astrophysics. The discovery was made as Dr Sala's team worked on a mapping mission at the eRosita, an X-ray observatory that launched as part of the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma mission. They scoured the sky to capture soft X-ray emissions. Combining this work with older x-ray data, they pieced together a more detailed model of the earth's region in space.

There is a channel, or “tunnel,” that appears to stretch toward the Centaurus constellation, ''connecting our neighborhood to distant star systems." Another pathway appears to point toward the vicinity of the region of Canis Major. And there are more such pathways.

"Each route may represent a kind of interstellar backroad."

No one is saying the tunnels are traversible, like galactic superhighways. However, the new model challenges old assumptions about connections between our Sun and the nearest stars. The space between stars is not a simple void. "The interplay of dust, plasma, radiation, and magnetic fields leads to an environment with far more complexity than a simple vacuum." 

- https://www.earth.com/news/interstellar-tunnel-found-that-connects-our-solar-system-to-other-stars/