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The Mysterious Oort Cloud at the Edge of the Solar System Might Have Spiral Arms Like a Tiny GalaxyI n the farthest reaches of our solar system, beyond the familiar planets and even the icy Kuiper Belt, lies a mysterious ...
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The Oort Cloud Forms a Spiral at the Outskirts of Our Solar Systemwhich originate in the Kuiper Belt - a region of small bodies past Neptune but before the Oort cloud - and take less than 200 years to orbit the Sun. LPCs are thought to travel mostly from the ...
Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...
And indeed, a long way from Neptune and the Kuiper Belt is the Oort Cloud, a region that could mark with accuracy the farthest limit that has been discovered so far in the Solar System.
The Kuiper Belt is one of the regions from which comets are sometimes deflected in to the inner solar system. And then beyond that, there's a huge halo of icy objects called the Oort Cloud.
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