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class="wp-caption-text">A very distant and very red Sedna. Credit: NASA, JPL, Caltech.
It's possible that if we do eventually observe the hypothetical objects that make up the hypothetical href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud">Oort cloud, they will all be a deep red color. This red coloring will probably be a mix of ices, richly laced with organic compounds – and may represent remnants of the primordial material from which the href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-solar-system/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">solar system was formed.
Furthermore, the wide range of colors found across different classes of trans-Neptunian objects may help to determine their origins.(...)
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