US EditionA planetarium show helped scientists discover a secret in our solar system. It opens to the public Monday.
- A new planetarium presentation titled "Encounters in the Milky Way" will be available to visitors starting Monday at the renowned natural history museum in New York City.
- Experts developed the show last fall, focusing on fine-tuning a scene about the Oort Cloud, a distant region beyond Pluto filled with icy relics.
- During a planetarium presentation about the Oort Cloud, observers detected an unexpected spiral formation resembling the Milky Way, which called into question the traditional spherical depiction of the cloud.
- David Nesvorny described the discovery as an unexpected and fortunate occurrence, while Andre Izidoro called the spiral a notable change in how we understand the outer solar system.
- This unexpected finding suggests the Oort Cloud has a more complex structure and could provide clues about distant comet orbits, though confirming it observationally will be difficult.
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