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Where is the Oort Cloud located?

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Answered by pokuri
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The Oort Cloud lies far beyond Pluto and the most distant edges of the Kuiper Belt. While the planets of our solar system orbit in a flat plane, the Oort Cloud is believed to be a giant spherical shell surrounding the Sun, planets and Kuiper Belt Objects.

Answered by Rameshjangid
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Tt has not yet been directly observed, and its existence can only be inferred from indirect evidence such as the observed orbits of comets.

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The Oort Cloud is a hypothesized spherical cloud of icy objects that is believed to be located in the outermost regions of the Solar System, beyond the Kuiper Belt and extending up to nearly halfway to the nearest star, approximately 1 light-year away from the Sun. It is named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who first proposed its existence in 1950 based on observations of long-period comets.

The Oort Cloud is thought to be the source of most of the comets that enter the inner Solar System, and is estimated to contain trillions of objects with diameters ranging from a few kilometers to tens of kilometers. However, since the Oort Cloud is so far away and its objects are so small, it has not yet been directly observed, and its existence can only be inferred from indirect evidence such as the observed orbits of comets.

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