Los testigos ofrecieron relatos similares sobre el incidente del martes, que se produjo alrededor de las cuatro de la madrugada en la misma rotonda.
, a region far beyond Pluto filled with icy relics from the solar system’s formation.toward Earth from the cloud, but scientists have never glimpsed its true shape.
One evening while watching the Oort Cloud scene, scientists noticed something strange projected onto the planetarium’s dome.“Why is there a spiral there?” said Jackie Faherty, an astrophysicist who leads the museum’s educational programs and helped put together the planetarium show.The inner section of the Oort Cloud, made of billions of comets, resembled a bar with two waving arms, similar to the shape of our Milky Way galaxy.
Scientists had long thought the Oort Cloud was shaped like a sphere or flattened shell, warped by the push and pull of other planets and the Milky Way itself. The planetarium show hinted that a more complex shape could lie inside.The museum contacted the researcher who provided the Oort Cloud data for the show, who was also surprised to see the spiral.
“It’s kind of a freak accident that it actually happened,” said David Nesvorny with the Southwest Research Institute.
Realizing they’d stumbled on something new, the researchersFormer prime minister Trudeau said on social media that it was with “much sadness” that he had learned about Garneau’s passing.
“I first met Marc as a schoolboy in the early 1980s,” Trudeau said. “I was in awe of his service and his courage then, and continued to be as I had the privilege to serve alongside him in Parliament and in government. Marc truly embodied and exemplified Canadian greatness throughout his whole life.”Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield said Garneau was his role model, mentor, longtime friend and “a brave and exemplary Canadian for us all.”
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Garneau “exceeded every expectation.”Garneau said in a recent interview that his three flights changed the way he saw Earth.