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A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...
NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...
"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing view of the planet Uranus, its rings and moons. Webb's ...
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.
By observing the occultation from many large telescopes, we are able to measure the light curve and determine Uranus's atmospheric properties at many altitude layers." This rendering demonstrates ...
"By observing the occultation from many large telescopes, we are able to measure the light curve and determine Uranus' atmospheric properties at many altitude layers." Related: Uranus: Everything ...
William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...
In a rare celestial event, Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star, an occurrence captured by NASA for the first time.
The team was able to make a dry run of the observations in November 2024, when they captured a dimmer Uranus occultation using telescopes in Asia. Those observations helped fine-tune the timing of ...