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Thanks for correcting my similar misimpression. It’s curious to note that the proposed outer limit of the Oort cloud (3.2 ly) is more than half the distance to
by divbzero 6y ago
Thanks for correcting my similar misimpression.
It’s curious to note that the proposed outer limit of the Oort cloud (3.2 ly) is more than half the distance to the closest star system (4.4 ly) [1] though I’m unclear whether the cloud would be roughly spherical or have some sort of directionality.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri