{"id":3928819,"date":"2026-11-09T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/our-suns-undiscovered-stellar-nemesis-is-still-out-there-says-physicist\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:04:14","slug":"our-suns-undiscovered-stellar-nemesis-is-still-out-there-says-physicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/our-suns-undiscovered-stellar-nemesis-is-still-out-there-says-physicist\/","title":{"rendered":"Our sun&#8217;s undiscovered stellar nemesis is still out there, says physicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Long-period, high-inclination comets of the sort that can cause extinction-level impacts here on Earth have long been thought to originate from a theoretical Oort cloud. That is, a roughly spherical cloud of icy cometary objects that number in the trillions at distances that extend up to 1.6 light-years away.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-sun-undiscovered-stellar-nemesis-physicist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-period, high-inclination comets of the sort that can cause extinction-level impacts here on Earth have long been thought to originate from a theoretical Oort cloud. That is, a roughly spherical cloud of icy cometary objects that number in the trillions at distances that extend up to 1.6 light-years away. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}