A New Study of the Distant Oort Cloud | SpaceTime S24E66 | Astronomy & Space Science Podcast

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SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 66
*A new study of the distant Oort cloud
Astronomers have undertaken a new analysis of the Oort cloud – the sphere of some 100 billion comets and chunks of icy debris in interstellar space which is gravitationally bound to the Sun.
*Heavy metals found in comets for the first time
Two separate studies have found heavy metals in the atmospheres of comets.