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- Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Helix Nebula (APOD 04 Sep 2008)
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Regarding the 'spokes' in the Helix: Could these be tails from comets in their analog to the Oort cloud? I didn't see a scale on this so I can't judge if that's a reasonable conjecture. I was thinking that perhaps all the nearby stuff has been boiled away and the outer comets are now getting swept n...