What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find a vast, thick shell of icy space debris. We have never seen it directly, but we know it exists- because it is the source of the most distant comets that we see entering the Solar System. So why is it there? Today we'll find out, in a new episode of #OOTW
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MUSIC:
All music in this video was downloaded from the UKposts Audio Library.
- The Six Realms | I Think I Can Help You
- Those Things Are More Fun With Other People | pATCHES
- Tides | Windows of Ken
- An Excuse To Do Less | pATCHES
- The Three Elements | I Think I Can Help You
- Clouded | Public Memory
- Ammil | The Tides
- Dusk | DivKid
- Growing Space | Astron
- Interplanetary Alignment | NoMBe
FOOTAGE:
The scenes in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator:
spaceengine.org/
Get SpaceEngine on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/31...
Some scenes were captured using Universe Sandbox
Oort Cloud Simulation: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Universe Sandbox: universesandbox.com/
Other Videos:
- Voyager-1 Launch: • VOYAGER 1 - Launch (19...
- Oort Cloud Shell Image (Creative Commons): www.rocketstem.org/2020/01/11...
- Timelapse of Comet Lovejoy: • Time-lapse Footage of ...
- NASA Planetary Disc Footage: • NASA Reveals Alien Com...
- Estuary Footage: • Estuaries: Where the R...
- How Big is the Milky Way Graphic | NASA (Creative Commons): • Our Milky Way Galaxy: ...
- Observatory Footage from ESA: • La Silla Observatory U...
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- Oort Cloud In Depth [NASA]: solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-sy...
- Oort Cloud Contents and Structure: arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512256
- Oort Cloud Facts: space-facts.com/oort-cloud/
- Kuiper Belt: solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-sy...
- Sedna: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_S...
- Siding Spring: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_...)
- Hale Bopp: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_H...
- Lovejoy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_...)
- TAU Spacecraft: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAU_(sp...)
- Whipple Mission: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201...
- Extrasolar Oort Clouds: astronomy.com/magazine/ask-as...
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
2:01 The Oort Cloud
5:18 The Scale of the Cloud
6:47 Formation of the Oort Cloud
9:33 The Source of All Comets
13:17 The Hills Cloud
14:40 Sedna
16:12 The Outer Oort Cloud
17:13 Siding Spring, Hale Bopp, Lovejoy
19:20 Future Missions to the Oort Cloud
21:46 Extra-solar Oort Clouds