The Oort Cloud is a fascinating and mysterious region of our solar system, situated at an immense distance from the Sun, far beyond the more familiar planets and even the Kuiper Belt.
Named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who first proposed its existence in 1950, the Oort Cloud is a hypothetical region filled with countless icy objects, including comets, that orbit the Sun in an extremely distant and spherical shell-like formation.
This celestial structure is pivotal in understanding the dynamics of our solar system and the origins of comets.