Oort
Britishnoun
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Dyson said the Oort Cloud has more real estate than all the planets in our solar system, and therefore we’ll eventually find a way to adapt to life there.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
And what, you ask, is the Oort Cloud?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
The Oort Cloud, a hypothesized shell of icy worlds at an unfathomable distance from the sun, has never been directly seen—and VRO won’t change that.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
But, the team calculated, it's slightly more likely that a rogue, Neptune-like planet from another solar system was snagged by the sun's gravity and came to rest somewhere in the Oort cloud.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2023
Properly called the Öpik–Oort cloud, it is named for the Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik, who hypothesized its existence in 1932, and for the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who refined the calculations eighteen years later.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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