Peculiar Shape

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The Oort Cloud is different from any of the other regions of the solar system in a very distinctive way. Unlike any other portion, the Oort Cloud forms a sphere. Unfortunatly, we have never directly observed the Oort Cloud and it is only theoretical at this point. This is because most of the objects that make it up are small dark asteroids and comets. They are so distant from any body of light that they are practically invisible, and combined with how tiny they are it is practically impossible to see them in any calculated way. The way we know that the cloud looks the way it does is because of the numerous long period comets we've observed that come from off of the orbital plane. This is the currently accepted theory as to how those objects are coming from where they appear to be. They were not formed there, however. The currently accepted idea is that they are early solar system objects that were pushed out there by the gravitational force of the giant planets, Jupiter in particular.

Since the Oort Cloud is theoretical and only the best accepted theory of where these strange objects are coming from. There is a chance of course that the Oort Cloud is not actually there. and these things are coming from somewhere else entirely, debris from between solar systems. The shape itself is very strange and notable since it reminds me something of an atom. Forever we thought of electrons as having orbits, but, like the Oort Cloud, through observation it has been modeled as an electron cloud. That the path an electron takes is chaotic and could be anywhere around an atom at any time. Previously we believed that objects in the solar system existed on this orbital plane.