- From 2013 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. : Jan Hendrik Oort
" ... In 1950 Oort PROPOSED that comets originate from a vast cloud of small bodies that orbit the Sun at a distance of about one light-year, and the approach of other stars toward this cloud alters some comets’ orbits so that they pass close to the Sun. The existence of this region, which was named the Oort Cloud, EVENTUALLY came to be ACCEPTED by MOST astronomers. ... "
No. We've seen computer graphics of it, or as most people like to say, MAKE BELIEVE.
Have we seen or observed by telescopes, this PROPOSED THEORY around other stars, or other "solar systems" ?
No.
Now we do have very faint actual images of Gerard Kuiper's Kuiper Belt ( Object 1999 KR16 imaged with the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii in April 2000. )
But like all the articles state, "we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud."
Do I believe that the "Oort Cloud" is possible? Maybe.
But like so much of todays belief system, it's built off of someone's thoughts only.
I'm skeptical and awaiting confirmed proof.
I'm sick of being lied to. And the older I get, the more skeptical I get.