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Uranus Might Finally Get A Visitor After All These Years
Uranus is the loneliest thing in the solar system. It hasn’t had contact with anyone in over 30 years, since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft whizzed by it on 24 January 1986. Thankfully, some good folks at NASA and elsewhere are advocating for missions to Uranus and its Ice Giant companion, Neptune, which could take place…
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Two Undiscovered Dark Moons Appear To Be Hiding Near Uranus
After re-examining data acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, astronomers have detected wavy patterns in two of Uranus’s dark system of rings — patterns that may be indicative of two undiscovered moons.
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You Are Really Lonely When One Of Your Neighbours Is This Close
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has just captured another Pale Blue Dot image while orbiting Saturn. The difference is that, in this view, unlike the one from 19 July 19 2013 that featured Earth, the blue orb is Uranus, imaged by Cassini for the first time. So that tiny dot hanging out there in the blackness of…