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    Post by Dragon Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:26 am

    The solar system is an enormous place. Our cosmic neighborhood includes eight planets, around half a dozen dwarf planets, several hundred moons and millions of asteroids and comets, all spinning around the sun — and in many cases each other —at speeds of thousands of miles per hour, like a giant top.

    There are not one, but three potential boundaries to the solar system, according to NASA: the Kuiper Belt, the ring of rocky bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune; the heliopause, the edge of the sun's magnetic field; and the Oort Cloud, a distant reservoir of comets that are barely visible from Earth.


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    The Kuiper Belt is mainly made up of asteroids.

    Some astronomers argue that the Kuiper Belt should be considered the edge of the solar system because it loosely represents the edge of where the sun's protoplanetary disk — the swirling ring of gas and dust that later became the planets, moons and asteroids — would have been.


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    The Kuiper Belt: A Vast Frontier


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    The heliopause is the point where solar wind meets interstellar space.

    The heliopause is the outer edge of the sun's magnetic influence, known as the heliosphere.

    At this point, the stream of charged particles emitted by the sun, known as the solar wind, becomes too weak to repel the oncoming stream of radiation from stars and other cosmic entities in the Milky Way.


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    Voyager 1 is Leaving Solar System | NASA JPL Interstellar Space Heliopause 2012 Probe


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    Post by Dragon Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:37 am

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    The Oort Cloud (left) is much larger than the inner solar system (right) or the Kuiper Belt (center).

    The Oort Cloud is the furthest and most expansive potential solar system boundary, extending up to around 100,000 AU from the sun, according to NASA.


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    Post by Dragon Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:38 am



    The Oort Cloud | The Solar System's Shell

    What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find 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.


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