Oort Cloud

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By Laura Fishman
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

60 × 60 × 3.5 cm

Materials:

Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

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2013
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This painting has layers of gold, pink and turquoise poured over scumbled inky-blues, blue-greens and violets. Named after 'Oort Clouds', it is reminscent of expolosions in deep space where comets and stars collide. About 'Oort Clouds': A giant shell of icy bodies known as the Oort Cloud encircles the solar system. In 1950, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort suggested that some of the comets entering the solar system come from a cloud of icy bodies that may lie as far as 100,000 times Earth's distance from the sun, a distance of up to 150 trillion kilometers. When its inhabitants interact with passing stars, molecular clouds, and gravity from the galaxy, they may find themselves spiraling inward toward the sun, or cast completely out of the solar system into distant regions of space. The population of the Oort Cloud is in a constant state of flux. Not only are some of its residents permanently booted out of the system through interactions with passing neighbors, the sun may also capture the inhabitants from the shells surrounding other stars. Some of the bodies plunging toward the sun may have been kidnapped early in the sun's evolution, when it was part of a more closely-packed cluster of stars.

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