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Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across ...

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Using advanced simulations run on NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer ... For comparison, the distance from the Sun to Pluto is 0.0006 light years. Despite its enormity, the Oort cloud has never ...

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As these planets began orbiting the sun, their movements kicked the excess material far beyond Pluto's orbit, where they reside today. The Oort cloud's inner edge sits roughly 2,000 to 5,000 ...