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The Kuiper Belt is a donut-shaped object at the edge of our solar system. Scientists using data from the New Horizons spacecraft found something weird about it -- there might be two Kuiper Belts out there. Learn more about how the Kuiper Belt formed and how it differs from the Oort Cloud in this video.

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - What is the Kuiper Belt?
02:14 - What New Horizons found at the edge of the solar system
03:05 - Why Voyager 1 and 2 didn't study the Kuiper Belt
03:37 - The origins of the Kuiper Belt and the Nice model
05:14 - The Oort Cloud vs the Kuiper Belt

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