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Sypherr453 t1_j1p9tp7 wrote

Do you mean two stars' oort clouds intersecting? They could be colliding and intersect that way, but they wouldn't orbit each other and have separate intersecting clouds. In general, star systems are extremely far from each other and wouldn't mix

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Realistic_Ad8138 t1_j1pa8a6 wrote

Or have they before and we just haven't witnessed it yet?

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Sypherr453 t1_j1pag1k wrote

I'm sure they've impacted. They wouldn't form a stable system with two separate oort clouds. If two stars orbit, it would create one oort cloud far from the two stars

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