SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Oort Cloud is a spherical layer of icy objects surrounding our Sun, a star, and likely occupies space at a distance between about 2, 000 and 100, 000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -It’s a HUGE region of space beyond Neptune. The Kuiper Belt is one of the largest structures in our solar system-others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Its overall shape is like a puffed-up disk, or donut.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oort cloud is a shell of icy bodies that surrounds the solar system. It begins beyond the Kuiper Belt and even beyond the influence of the sun’s magnetic field, technically in interstellar space. There may be billions, or even trillions, of objects in it, and some are so large that they count as dwarf planets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overview. Both Arrokoth (visited by NASA’s New Horizons mission) and Pluto are in the Kuiper Belt – a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Oort Cloud is a huge sphere of icy rocks beyond the Kuiper Belt. It is thought to surround the entire Solar Solar System. The Oort Cloud is about 2 light years away from Earth. This means it takes light-travelling at 300, 000 kilometres every second-2 years to reach Earth from the Oort cloud!