The Oort Cloud | The Solar System's Shell

What lies at the very furthest recesses of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, lies 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. 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 YouTube 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:
http://spaceengine.org/
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Some scenes were captured using Universe Sandbox
Oort Cloud Simulation: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1557659633
Universe Sandbox: http://universesandbox.com/

Other Videos:
- Voyager-1 Launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LoWEncvTLQ&t
- Oort Cloud Shell Image (Creative Commons): https://www.rocketstem.org/2020/01/11/ice-and-stone-special-topic-03/
- Timelapse of Comet Lovejoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2tdjiE9PQ
- NASA Planetary Disc Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOb3xrjOhE
- Estuary Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrYQFdukGMg
- How Big is the Milky Way Graphic | NASA (Creative Commons): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3PIkbTQwQ
- Observatory Footage from ESA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwDJIT8Ucpo

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- Oort Cloud In Depth [NASA]: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/in-depth/
- Oort Cloud Contents and Structure: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512256
- Oort Cloud Facts: https://space-facts.com/oort-cloud/
- Kuiper Belt: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/overview/
- Sedna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
- Siding Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_A1_(Siding_Spring)
- Hale Bopp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp
- Lovejoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_W3_(Lovejoy)
- TAU Spacecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAU_(spacecraft)
- Whipple Mission: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015DPS....4731207A/abstract
- Extrasolar Oort Clouds: https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2012/08/interstellar-comets

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