Tagged: Uranus

Many objects in space emit X-rays, including black holes, neutron stars, a special class of binary stars known as X-ray binaries, exploding stars called supernovae and their remnants, and our own sun. Most of the planets in our solar system, and even some of Jupiter’s...

Researchers are investigating an alien version of water inside the strange, icy interiors of Uranus and Neptune. In a new study, scientists have devised a theoretical computer model and used it to peer inside the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. With this tool, the team...

The strange appearance of Uranus’ moon Miranda may finally have an explanation. Miranda resembles Frankenstein’s monster — a bizarre jumble of parts that didn’t quite merge properly. Now, researchers suggest they may know why Miranda looks so odd: Constant squeezing and stretching from Uranus caused...

Astronomers have uncovered that Uranus’ rings have a “warm” glow to them, a trait that’s befuddling them. The images, released by the University of California Berkeley and taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), show the lack of...

Uranus was hit by a mysterious space object shortly after the planet formed, causing it to tilt approximately 98 degrees, compared to the plane of the Solar System. Now, researchers believe they have discovered what impacted the ice giant. The research, published in Nature Astronomy,...

New NASA mission ideas would study the gassy environments of Uranus and Neptune, two planets on the edge of the solar system that spacecraft have visited only once. The agency has several potential mission concepts on the table, including flybys, orbiters and even a spacecraft...

This composite image, created in 2004 with Keck Observatory telescope adaptive optics, shows Uranus’ two hemispheres. Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory It turns out that Uranus is so weird because of a massive collision billions of years ago. A new study confirms...

It’s funny. There are eight planets in this solar system and Neptune is the farthest from the sun. Yet it still releases more heat than Uranus, planet No. 7. Four times wider than Earth, Uranus is also about 14.5 times as massive as the world...

Voyager 2 snapped this photo of the seventh planet from the sun back in 1986. Much of what we know about the planet has come from ground-based observations. NASA/JPL-CALTECH Uranus stinks. And we’re not joking. The enigmatic outer solar system planet has long had a...