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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 ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly.
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Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something of an enigma. Now, it seems that our understanding of the planet — garnered mostly from a flyby by a NASA spacecra ...
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Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event. Uranus, captured by NASA’s ...
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Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's ...
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A rare event during 1986 Uranus flyby may have skewed the way scientists understand the planet, study finds
The study results could also reinforce the idea that Uranus remains a largely misunderstood world, given that astronomers’ basic knowledge of the planet stemmed from an extraordinary anomaly.