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> The Oort Cloud is the most distant region of our solar system [1] > the spacecraft [Voyager 1] will take about 300 years to reach the inner boundary of the O
by hericium 4y ago
> The Oort Cloud is the most distant region of our solar system [1]
> the spacecraft [Voyager 1] will take about 300 years to reach the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud and probably another 30,000 years to exit the far side [1]
> The inner edge of the Oort Cloud (...) is thought to be between 2,000 and 5,000 AU [astronomical units] from the Sun. The outer edge might be 10,000 or even 100,000 AU from the Sun [1]
> Voyager 1 (...) Distance from Sun: 156.42163354 AU [2]
[1] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overview/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overvie...
[2] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
- prawn 4y ago"The Oort Cloud is so distant, however, that the power sources for all five spacecraft will be dead centuries before they reach its inner edge." The scale is incredible.