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Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event
NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...
NASA Peeks Into Uranus's Atmosphere As It Blocks A Star 400 Light-Years Away
William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds water in the air of exotic 'sub-Neptune' exoplanet
"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...
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Watch: Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star
In a rare celestial event, Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star, an occurrence captured by NASA for the first time.
James Webb hunts for a haze-less exoplanet to answer longstanding mystery
These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.
NASA's Webb Reveals Secrets of Milky Way's Most Common Type of Planet
Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.
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Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event
Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus — an event known as a planetary stellar occultation. | Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory NASA ...