{"id":208920,"date":"2025-03-17T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/spiral-structure-found-at-the-solar-systems-edge-baffles-scientists"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:25:10","slug":"spiral-structure-found-at-the-solar-systems-edge-baffles-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/spiral-structure-found-at-the-solar-systems-edge-baffles-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Spiral structure found at the solar system\u2019s edge baffles scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spiral-structure-found-at-the-solar-systems-edge-baffles-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The spiral pattern is about 15,000 astronomical units wide, or around 1.4 trillion miles from one end to the other. It also appears to have a tilt of roughly 30 degrees relative to the usual plane of our Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>That tilt and the elongated swirl may trace back to the galaxy\u2019s own gravitational pulling, which could have twisted and shaped the inner Oort Cloud soon after the Solar System\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n<p>The simulations suggest that, early in the Solar System\u2019s history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/streaming-instability-hypothesis-altjira-system-kuiper-belt-hubble-three-body-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bits of icy debris<\/a> were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud by galactic forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spiral pattern is about 15,000 astronomical units wide, or around 1.4 trillion miles from one end to the other. It also appears to have a tilt of roughly 30 degrees relative to the usual plane of our Solar System. That tilt and the elongated swirl may trace back to the galaxy\u2019s own gravitational pulling, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208920","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}