<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/galactic_journey.jpg” alt=”The Solar System’s Journey Around the Center of the Milky Way Affected the Middle Miocene Climate”/>About 14 million years ago, the Solar System, moving around the center of the Galaxy, crossed the Radcliffe Wave – a wave-like gas structure formed by interacting star-forming regions. This journey could have compressed the heliosphere, increasing the influx of interstellar dust to Earth, and affected the climate of the Middle Miocene.