#oort-cloud

[spacenutspod]

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[cosmonautroger]

The Oort Cloud, Solar System

[quiltofstars]

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) hanging over Bieszczady, Poland on October 16, 2024 // Dominik Sito

[flyboytracy]

[cosmiccare]

7 greedy greedy pests

[laughing-moonlight]

I don't know if it's already been said or done, but this scene from "It's Not Your Fault" Good Will Hunting

Is literally Jeff @ Scott after his rescue from the Oort Cloud

[solars-sun]

Boom, I’m putting Oort Cloud in control of Sun’s body

Only if mod is ok with it :3

(Oh yeah definitely, go ahead)

Oort Cloud opened his eyes. He was expecting to wake up in the cozy mind of Sundew. NOT in Sundew's body. He looked around, confused. Then, he contacted the only person he knew to call: @crazed-moondrop

(Btw idc if it's Silver or Crescent, Oort Cloud will be struggling regardless)

[pangeen]

“ Imagine a massive celestial bubble made of ice and dust surrounding our Solar System. That’s the Oort cloud ❄️🌌⁠ ⁠ 🚀 The Oort Cloud lies at the very edges of the Solar system. It’s so far away that it can’t be seen directly and remains unexplored by spacecraft.⁠ ⁠ 🌠 Long-period comets, taking centuries to orbit the Sun, provide evidence for the existence of the Oort Cloud. Scientists believe this vast region is the birthplace of these cosmic travelers.⁠ ⁠ ☄️ Apart from long-period comets, the Oort cloud may feature asteroids and dwarf planets.⁠ “

// astro.voyagers

[darkenergyslivers]

galaxies : The Oort Cloud lies at the very edges of the Solar system. Even the farthest [human-made objects] which are still working, like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons [have not gone] beyond the cloud. Long-period comets, taking centuries to orbit the Sun, provide evidence for the existence of the Oort Cloud. Scientists believe this vast region is the birthplace of these cosmic [travellers].⁠

[rayjayoo]

oort cloud

>• “maybe it’s a star that nobody knows” :: oort cloud by younha •<

[typhlonectes]

The Oort Cloud

The Oort cloud (sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud) is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU (0.03 to 3.2 light-years. The concept of such a cloud was proposed in 1950 by the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, in whose honor the idea was named. Oort proposed that the bodies in this cloud replenish and keep constant the number of long-period comets entering the inner Solar System—where they are eventually consumed and destroyed during close approaches to the Sun. The cloud is thought to comprise two regions: a disc-shaped inner Oort cloud aligned with the solar ecliptic (also called its Hills cloud) and a spherical outer Oort cloud enclosing the entire solar system. Both regions lie well beyond the heliosphere and are in interstellar space. The Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and the detached objects—three other reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects—are more than a thousand times closer to the Sun than the innermost portion of the Oort cloud (as shown in a logarithmic graphic within this article)...

Read more: Oort cloud - Wikipedia

[dapurinthos]

i made a mistake in looking up different spiral galaxies in the universe and now i know things like galaxy filaments and how there's this one giant wall called the hercules-corona borealis great wall that's 11% of our entire universe??? and there's an unusually large cold spot supervoid that's part of what they call an axis of evil and they were just 'let's ignore it and hope it goes away'???? and the supervoid is just. a giant hole in the universe that might be 1 billion lightyears across????

it is making my brain cry!

star wars, please, stop making me have an existential crisis.

[truedexxxy]

[quiltofstars]

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) on October 13, 2024 // S.Nagahiro

Go outside and see it now while you can! It won't be back for another ~235,000 years!

[typemoonsmashorpass]

[cosmiccare]