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Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event
NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...
Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus
When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...
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Scientists Strive to Explain the Strange Weather on Other Planets
Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
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NASA Takes Advantage of Planetary Alignment to Take a Peek at Uranus
On April 7, Uranus passed in front of a distant star located 400 light-years away, giving NASA scientists a rare cosmic alignment in which to investigate the distant ice giant. During the hour ...
A Day on Uranus Just Got Longer
Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 ...
Uranus has a longer day than astronomers thought
The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...
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Rare Alignment Gives NASA A Chance To Peer Into Uranus
“The atmospheres of the gas and ice giant planets [Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune] are exceptional atmospheric laboratories because they don’t have solid surfaces. This allows us to ...