What is the Oort Soup?
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What is the Oort Soup?
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The Oort Soup is all the bodies and matter in the space between stars.
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What form is it in?
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It's solid bodies of every size, up from dust through to planetesimals and planets, right up to giant rogue planets just below star size.
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Is there much of it?
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Yes, the Oort Soup comprises about 90% of the mass of the Universe.
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Why is very little known about it?
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The bodies involved are too cold to radiate visible light, and too distant from stars to be detected by reflected light.
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