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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical... (2024 Jan 07)

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This object is about the same size as the Solar System, with its outer edge located somewhere in our Oort Cloud, were they overlaid. Earth, of course, at this scale, isn't visually separable from the center star.
Here's some context:


solar system over cays eye.jpg
Which also reveals the size of the Solar System in comparison with the orbits of the planets... the outer edge of the Oort cloud extends nearly to Alpha Centauri, well outside the green circle!
Indeed - note the logarithmic distance scale:

Statistics: Posted by johnnydeep — Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:16 pm — Replies 13 — Views 463



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