Kuiper belt

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The Kuiper Belt is a vast region of icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, located roughly 30 to 55 times farther from the Sun than Earth. It contains thousands of dwarf planets, comets, and other frozen remnants from the early solar system, with Pluto being its most famous resident.

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