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Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – a difference that could be crucial in planning future missions to the gas g

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 seconds longer than what was estimated during NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986.

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation." This rare event ...

The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, or 28 seconds longer than the best previous estimate made by NASA’s Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.

it was enough that observers were no longer able to find the magnetic axis of the planet less than two years after Voyager 2’s visit. That uncertainty was because giant planets such as Uranus ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope introduced research findings that forced a major change in scientific understanding of Uranus. The established knowledge about Uranus’s rotation period remained unchanged throughout many decades. Scientific measurements of ...

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. An analysis of 11 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows that Uranus' day lasts 17 ...

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...

New research into Uranus and Neptune has revealed some striking information. Much about these two ice giants is still unknown, with missions to explore them more in-depth still in the works.

(WHTM) – The Hubble Space Telescope has been measuring Uranus’ interior rotation and determined that a day on the planet is longer than initially thought. According to a French-led team of ...

A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Uranus up-close. Using radio ...

This technique revealed that Uranus completes a full rotation in 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds—28 seconds longer than the estimate obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...

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Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...