{"id":169186,"date":"2025-06-09T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169186\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:58:17","slug":"discovery-about-outer-solar-system-during-set-up-up-of-planetarium-show-shocks-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169186\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery about outer solar system during set-up up of planetarium show shocks astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scientists may have been given new information on one of the solar system\u2019s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on June 7.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the American Museum of Natural History last autumn, experts were hard at work preparing \u201cEncounters in the Milky Way\u201d, a deep dive into our home galaxy shaped by the movements of stars and other celestial objects.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They were fine-tuning a scene featuring what\u2019s known as the Oort Cloud, a theoretical region far beyond Pluto believed to be filled with icy relics from the solar system\u2019s formation that pass into the solar system as comets.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One evening while watching the Oort Cloud scene, scientists noticed something strange projected onto the planetarium\u2019s dome.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A new planetarium show created a backwards S-shaped spiral in a mock-up of the Oort Cloud, causing excitement among some scientists. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5f503813-ea2a-4eee-b3a8-3782cb8f2dba_f2ff914f.jpg\" title=\"A new planetarium show created a backwards S-shaped spiral in a mock-up of the Oort Cloud, causing excitement among some scientists. Photo: AP\"\/>A new planetarium show created a backwards S-shaped spiral in a mock-up of the Oort Cloud, causing excitement among some scientists. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhy is there a spiral there?\u201d said the museum\u2019s Jackie Faherty.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The inner section of the Oort Cloud, made of billions of comets, resembled a bar with two waving arms, similar to the shape of our Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists may have been given new information on one of the solar system\u2019s many secrets from an unexpected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70651,70649,70646,70650,70642,70645,70648,65178,70643,22131,49667,31563,70644,70,70647,413,70641,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-american-museum-of-natural-history","9":"tag-andre-izidoro","10":"tag-carter-emmart","11":"tag-david-nesvorny","12":"tag-encounters-in-the-milky-way","13":"tag-jackie-faherty","14":"tag-jon-parker","15":"tag-milky-way","16":"tag-oort-cloud","17":"tag-pedro-pascal","18":"tag-pluto","19":"tag-rice-university","20":"tag-sagittarius","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-southwest-research-institute","23":"tag-space","24":"tag-the-astrophysical-journal","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114651168981757832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}