An Alien Planet May be "Hiding" in The Oort Cloud

 

An Alien Planet May be "Hiding" in The Oort Cloud A 'captured' alien planet may be hiding at the edge of our solar system — and it's not 'Planet X' A recent study suggests that the Oort cloud, situated at the edge of our solar system, might be concealing a rogue exoplanet. Researchers simulated the early solar system's unstable celestial mechanics and hypothesized the possibility of planet-sized bodies resting within the Oort cloud. The cloud, a collection of icy objects, is situated several hundred billion to trillion miles from the Sun. Scientists postulate that there's a 0.5% chance of a rogue planet originating from our solar system being in the Oort cloud, while a 7% chance exists that a Neptune-sized rogue planet from another solar system was captured by the Sun's gravity and resides there. The paper awaits peer-review and is published on the arXiv preprint server. Subscribe to Science Time: https://www.youtube.com/sciencetime24 #science #shorts #space