11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... yet left the solar system. The outer rim of the Oort cloud is considered to be where our Solar System comes to ...about 300 years for Voyager 2 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly 30,000 years to fly beyond it; providing it doesn’t ...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
... as Pluto and more recently another Kuiper Belt object known as (KBO) 2012 VP113 detected in the inner Oort cloud in 2014, the question of whether a massive planet really does reside in the outer solar system has been...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... to spotting objects within the scattered disk and other high-inclination TNO populations from the inner Oort cloud. Once identified, ALMA was then used to measure the object’s thermal emission. The team note in their...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
... it, the scattered disc is also a distant circumstellar disc that lies between the Kuiper belt and the Oort Cloud and it is sparsely populated with small icy planets known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). Not much is really...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... that ’Oumuamua’s elongated, cigar-shaped body was quite unlike the cometary objects that populate our Oort Cloud, as it didn’t show the usual tell tale sign of a coma (a comet’s tail). Comas appear when the object...
13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
... Solar System formed, some mysteries still remain. Why for example is Uranus tilted sideways, does the Oort Cloud really exist and why does a lot of the dust found in meteorites seem to have been melted rapidly...
