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SEA | The Oort Cloud | The Solar System's Shell

What lies at the very furthest recesses of the Solar System?

Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, lies a vast, thick shell of icy space debris.


We have never seen it directly, but we know it exists- because it is the source of the most distant comets that we see entering the Solar System.


Why is it there?


Today we'll find out; in a new episode of #OOTW

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