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The Oort Cloud is a distant region of the Solar System with billions of comets.

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The Oort Cloud is a spherical shell of icy bodies believed to exist at the edges of the Solar System, up to 100,000 astronomical units from the Sun. It is the source of many long-period comets. It has never been observed directly.

Source: NASA

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