The Oort Cloud is one of the strangest places in the Solar System because it has never been seen directly. Astronomers infer its existence from the paths of long-period comets: icy bodies that spend most of their lives in deep space and only occasionally fall toward the Sun. NASA describes the Oort Cloud as a […]

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We might be living through a comet shower created by a star that millions of years ago jostled the Oort Cloud surrounding the solar system.

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My biblical creation model of the solar system expects the presence of icy materials forming the outer planets and celestial bodies. Recent findings of water and ice in bodies like Ceres, and moons of Jupiter and Saturn support this theory, confirming the Genesis account of creation.