Some of the disturbed Oort cloud comets will make it into visibility but some are caught by another smaller but still very large cloud of comets more aligned with the plane in which the planets circle the Sun called the Kuiper belt of comets. It is here that most of the short-period comets reside. The Kuiper belt is located past the orbit of Neptune. The gravitational pull of the giant planets Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter interact with the Kuiper belt of comets and sometimes disturbs one of them and pulls it into the inner solar system. Here the comets form another belt just beyond Jupiter or come close enough to the Sun to be seen.
Some comets arrive travelling so quickly that it is thought that they must
have come from beyond the Oort Cloud and be real interstellar travellers.
Hubble Space Telescope image of a Kuiper belt object believed to be around 15 km across. It is only with the advent of telescopes as powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope that it has been possible to image such faint objects so far a way. The Kuiper belt object does not emit light like stars and is only seen by the reflection of the light from the Sun, this makes searching for the origins of comets a very tricky process as it is almost impossible to see them at their place of origin.