{"id":207185,"date":"2025-02-24T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/surprise-spiral-shape-revealed-in-the-darkness-surrounding-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:07:39","slug":"surprise-spiral-shape-revealed-in-the-darkness-surrounding-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/surprise-spiral-shape-revealed-in-the-darkness-surrounding-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Spiral Shape Revealed in The Darkness Surrounding The Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJscxTyI__s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The edge of the Solar System is a strange place, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-new-horizons-probe-detects-ultraviolet-neutral-hydrogen-wall-solar-system-heliopause\">full of oddities<\/a> we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/strange-ripples-have-been-detected-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system\">only just begun to probe<\/a>. But perhaps the oddest of all is the Oort Cloud, a vast field of icy debris extending out to 100,000 times the distance between Earth and the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>We have a rough idea of the size and shape of this field, but the fine particulars elude our understanding. Now, a new computational study has revealed a surprising structure \u2013 a spiral generated by the tidal forces exerted by the Milky Way galaxy itself.<\/p>\n<p>The finding, in press at <i>The Astrophysical Journal<\/i>, is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.11252\">available on preprint server arXiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The edge of the Solar System is a strange place, full of oddities we\u2019ve only just begun to probe. But perhaps the oddest of all is the Oort Cloud, a vast field of icy debris extending out to 100,000 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. We have a rough idea of the size [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}