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NASA Just Got a Rare Look Inside Uranus – Here’s What They Found
A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...
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 ...
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.
NASA Observes Rare Uranus Occultation, Unveiling New Atmospheric and Ring Details
The scientists also observed that ice and gas giants like Uranus may be natural laboratories for learning about atmospheres. This absence of solid ground means that cloud formation, storm development, ...