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Our sun's undiscovered stellar nemesis is still out there, says physicist

Our sun's undiscovered stellar nemesis is still out there, says physicist

Our sun's undiscovered stellar nemesis is still out there, says physicist

Long-period, high-inclination comets of the sort that can cause extinction-level impacts here on Earth have long been thought to originate from a theoretical Oort cloud. That is, a roughly spherical cloud of icy cometary objects that number in the trillions at distances that extend up to 1.6 light-years away.

phys.org/news/2026-11-sun-undiscovered-stellar-nemesis-physicist.html

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