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An international team used 20 years of data and photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to study Uranus' atmosphere and ...
Researchers found the south polar region darkened in winter shadow, while the north polar region brightened as summer came.
Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...
Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his telescope when he spotted the planet. Herschel developed an ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched in 2021 and has captured incredible photos of Uranus and some of its 28 moons.
Sromovsky Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an ... that will be easier thanks to this new discovery. But (and with Uranus, there’s always a but), that mission ...
NASA's space shuttle Discovery delivered the space telescope to orbit on April 24, 1990. More information: L. Lamy et al, A new rotation period and longitude system for Uranus, Nature Astronomy ...
"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center. "Saturn's are mostly ice, Jupiter's are mostly dust, and Uranus' and ...