Orion Glossary
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Oort cloudA spherical cloud of icy bodies surrounding the Solar System and extending up to one-third of the way to the nearest star. It is sometimes called the Öpik-Oort cloud. | |
oxygen burningThe process by which, towards the end of their lives, massive stars fuse oxygen nuclei together to form silicon. | |