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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'

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Scientists have discovered a spiral structure on the edge of our solar system.

The structure is composed of billions of icy bodies surrounded by a shell of comets called the Oort cloud.

The spiral runs perpendicular, or at an angle of 90 degrees , to the plane of the Milky Way.

It is not a temporary structure; it is long-lived and persists in the inner Oort Cloud .

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is scheduled to begin later this year .

The team's research is available in a pre-peer-reviewed paper on the repository site arXiv.com.

The spiral might also be detected by looking for thermal emission by dust at far-infrared/sub-millimeter wavelengths.

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