The Oort Cloud May Be Much Stranger Than We First Thought

The Oort Cloud May Be Much Stranger Than We First Thought

Right now, surrounding our entire solar system, there is a shell of frozen objects one trillion strong. Most of them have never moved. Some have been sitting still since before Earth existed. We call it the Oort Cloud. And for seventy-five years, scientists thought they understood it. A quiet, frozen bubble. Boring. They were wrong. It has spiral arms. Credit to : Late Science