Oort Cloud Our Glaxy Surrounds

The Oort cloud is thought to occupy a vast space from somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 au (0. 03 and 0. 08 ly) to as far as 50,000 au (0. 79 ly) from the Sun. Some estimates place the outer edge at between 100,000 and 200,000 au (1. 58 and 3. 16 ly). The region can be subdivided into a spherical outer Oort cloud of 20,000–50,000 au (0. 32–0. 79 ly), and a torus-shaped inner Oort cloud of 2,000–20,000 au (0. 0–0. 3 ly). The outer cloud is only weakly bound to the Sun and supplies the long-period (and possibly Halley-type) comets to inside the orbit of Neptune. The inner Oort cloud is also known as the Hills cloud, named after Jack G. Hills, who proposed its existence in 1981. Models predict that the inner cloud should have tens or hundreds of times as many cometary nuclei as the outer halo; it is seen as a possible source of new comets to resupply the tenuous outer cloud as the latter’s numbers are gradually depleted. The Hills cloud explains the continued existence of the Oort cloud after billions of years.


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