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The Oort Cloud: The Edge of Everything

By VOKZAN | Updated 2025
<2>The Farthest Reach

The Oort Cloud is a theoretical spherical cloud of icy objects at the extreme edge of our solar system, about a light-year from the sun. It's where comets come from!

It's Very Far

The Oort Cloud is so far away that it would take light to travel there about a year. Our fastest spacecraft would take tens of thousands of years to reach it!