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 ...
Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986
When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the ... its journey and is currently almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from ...
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The Sky This Week from November 15 to 22: 2024’s last Super Moon occults the Pleiades
The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
To deepen the mystery, the icy moons of the other giant planets leak water ions, which feed the plasma rings that form part ...
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Voyager 2 Data Unlocks Uranus Mysteries
NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image of Uranus while flying by the ice giant in 1986. New research using data from the ...