🌌 Far beyond the last bright planet, the solar system softens into an inferred halo where icy bodies drift in deep quiet. Long-period comets arrive like messages from that distant frontier, written in motion rather than light.
✍️ Trace the full arc of the story: https://TPC8.short.gy/zb8yYmze
🌠 Some frontiers reveal themselves through patience and wonder.
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Astronomers Detect Unexpected Activity in Largest Oort Cloud Comet
Astronomers have made an astonishing discovery about comet C 2014 UN271, the largest comet ever detected in the Oort Cloud. Despite being over a billion miles from the Sun, the comet is venting carbon monoxide gas, a phenomenon that was not expected at such a great distance. This comet, also known a... [More info]
EN BREF 🌌 Le nuage d’Oort est une région hypothétique située aux confins du Système solaire, supposée être un réservoir de comètes. 🖥️ Les supercalculateurs de la Nasa révèlent que le nuage pourrait avoir une structure complexe en forme de spirale. 🔍 L’observation directe du nuage d’Oort reste un défi en raison de sa distance
Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission
The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.
➡️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor
#ESA #CometInterceptor #comet #comets #OortCloud #3IATLAS #Astrodon #science #news
"Why is there a spiral there?"
Accidental Discovery at a Planetarium
#astronomy #OortCloud #HaydenPlanetarium
https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec
Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets. Experts at the American Museum of Natural History in New York were fine-tuning a scene about the Oort Cloud that's far beyond Pluto. Scientists have never glimpsed this region, but when museum experts projected their scene onto the planetarium dome, created using simulation data, they saw a spiral shape. They published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal earlier this year. The planetarium show “Encounters in the Milky Way” opens to the public on Monday.
Tohle je fasicnující - naprostou náhodou bylo díky vizualizaci reálných dat zjištěno, že Oortův oblak má ve skutečnosti tvar spirály (něco jako minigalaxie kolem Sluneční soustavy!)
https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec
Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets. Experts at the American Museum of Natural History in New York were fine-tuning a scene about the Oort Cloud that's far beyond Pluto. Scientists have never glimpsed this region, but when museum experts projected their scene onto the planetarium dome, created using simulation data, they saw a spiral shape. They published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal earlier this year. The planetarium show “Encounters in the Milky Way” opens to the public on Monday.
An accidental discovery: astronomers find a spiral structure in the Oort cloud by chance after data from a simulation were visualized in preparation of a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium
☑️ news https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec
☑️ research paper https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b
#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #SolarSystem #OortCloud #Planetarium #HaydenPlanetarium #visualization #science #news #STEM #simulation #comet #comets
A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b
#HackerNews #A #Spiral #Structure #in #the #Inner #Oort #Cloud #space #OortCloud #space #Astronomy #space #SpaceScience #space #CosmicStructures
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