Uranus

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Uranus was first spotted in the night sky On This Day in 1781, by astronomer William Herschel, who originally thought it was either a comet or a star. Teach kids about the discovery of the “bull’s eye planet” and other similar ones here!

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World and Science on Twitter: "Hubble Views a Dazzling Cosmic Necklace The interaction of two doomed stars has created this spectacular ring adorned with bright clumps of gas -– a diamond necklace of cosmic proportions fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula” (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll) https://t.co/gHAChleDj6" / Twitter

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Uranus' Magnetic Sphere Flips On & Off Daily --"A Geometric Nightmare" 6/26/17

Uranus has a haze layer in its atmosphere that is roughly double the thickness of Neptune, giving it the much paler colour, according to researchers led by the University of Oxford.

Version A of the Uranus installment of our solar system poster series.

Last year, while combing through NASA’s archives, two planetary scientists noticed something earlier analyses had overlooked—a blip in Uranus’s magnetic field as the spacecraft cruised through a magnetic bubble of sorts. The new result, which appeared last summer in Geophysical Research Letters, comes as planetary scientists start to shift their focus to some of the field’s deepest outstanding mysteries.