The spiral, Nesvorny added, is in the inner part of the Oort Cloud, the closest to us, and he still believes that the outer portion is spherical or shell-shaped.

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, ... When he did, the spiral structure emerged clearly. “Weird way to discover things,” he said.

Visual Glitch Leads To Accidental Discovery Of Spiral In Mysterious Oort Cloud The team was reviewing the animation when they noticed what appeared to be a spiral structure inside the typically ...

A recent computational study has unveiled a surprising spiral structure within the inner Oort Cloud, the distant region of icy bodies surrounding our Solar System.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

One evening while watching the Oort Cloud scene, scientists noticed something strange projected onto the planetarium's dome. “Why is there a spiral there?” said Jackie Faherty, an ...

This image from the American Museum of Natural History shows a new planetarium show, showing a backwards S-shaped spiral in what’s known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto. AP.

Scientists had long thought the Oort Cloud was shaped like a sphere or flattened shell, warped by the push and pull of other planets and the Milky Way itself. The planetarium show hinted that a ...

The spiral, Nesvorny added, is in the inner part of the Oort Cloud, the closest to us, and he still believes that the outer portion is spherical or shell-shaped.

The spiral, Nesvorny added, is in the inner part of the Oort Cloud, the closest to us, and he still believes that the outer portion is spherical or shell-shaped.

Crazy, long orbits. The existence of the Oort Cloud was first proposed in 1950 by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who imagined it as a shell of icy bodies swirling around the sun from up to 1.5 light ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...