Artist's impression of the distribution of long-period comets (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Artist's impression of the distribution of long-period comets

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The converging lines represent the paths of the comets. The ecliptic plane is shown in yellow and the empty ecliptic is shown in blue. The background grid represents the plane of the Galactic disk.

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