Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network in the Solar System recently. Through this “celestial highway”, comets and asteroids near Jupiter are driven to Neptune’s distance in less than a decade. These routes could be used to send man-made spacecraft to the ends of our Solar System rather quickly.
In their paper, published in the Nov. 25 issue of Science Advances, the researchers observed the dynamical structure of these routes, forming a connected series of arches inside what's known as space manifolds that extend from the asteroid belt to Uranus and beyond. This newly discovered "celestial autobahn" or "celestial highway" acts over several decades, as opposed to the hundreds of thousands or millions of years that usually characterize Solar System dynamics.
Whoa.
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