The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system’s comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

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    6513 hours ago

    NASA supercomputer reveals strange spiral structure at the edge of our solar system that we already knew of.

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      2312 hours ago

      Any time an article says, “Scientists find strange/weird/shocking thing,” I know it’s only strange to the author/editor of the article.

      If scientists were as ignorant as these article authors, supernatural events would have been “proven” long ago.

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        612 hours ago

        Probably not even strange to them, it’s just the nature of science journalism these days. If it’s not strange and new, it doesn’t turn eyes, and therefore there’s little incentive to write about it.

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    38 hours ago

    Now what they need to do is measure the angular velocity of the outer most objects to more inner based.

    A much more localized place to study dark matter would be cool.

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    49 hours ago

    Sorry guys. I couldn’t help it.