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Oort cloud

Oort cloud

The Oort cloud, the spherical cloud of comets believed to lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun; this distance places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun

astronomical object, Trans-Neptunian region
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Jan Oort
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
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astronomical object, Trans-Neptunian region
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