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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Unveiling the Sun’s Secret Twisters: Magnetic Vortices at the Poles
Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...
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Strange Anomaly in 1986 May Have Warped Our Perception of Uranus
The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...
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Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
Such a visit likely would have shown that the Uranus magnetosphere is similar to those of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the ...
Hold On… There Are Other Planets in The Lord of the Rings?
We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?
'Hand of God': The 'Hand of God' is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has image…
From the mysterious 'smiling face' to the grand 'Pillars of creation', check out these 7 amazing photos of our universe ...
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This Humble Restaurant In Maine Has Mouth-Watering Haddocks That Are Absolutely To Die For
Step inside, and you’ll find yourself in a cozy, no-frills dining room that feels more like your favorite uncle’s living room ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.