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Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet
A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...
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New images reveal Neptune and Uranus in different colours than originally thought
Many people think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green, but a team from the University of Oxford found that the two ice giants, are actually a "similar shade of greenish ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds Evidence For An Ocean World Around Uranus
New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...
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On this date: Astronomer discovers new moons around Uranus
On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...