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The Sun's influence

Professor Brian Cox explores the outer limits of the Solar System. He shows that the Sun's influence reaches as far out as the Oort cloud, a region of icy debris that takes millennia to orbit the Sun.

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Wonders of the Solar SystemOriginal Series, Empire of the Sun

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