New image of Uranus.
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Now we can see the icy blue Uranus in amazing detail.
The image centers on Uranus and includes satellites such as Puck, Rosalind, and Juliet.
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This image is a version of the image released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in January, with data at different wavelengths added.
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)The image taken by astronomers could barely make out faint rings around Uranus, but this image is a big improvement over that.
Uranus photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022 (left) and Uranus photographed by JWST in 2023 (right).
NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI), Insider
This new image isUranusIt shows details of the “polar cap” that swirls around the North Pole.
According to researchers,UranusThe polar caps will become “more visible” as the planet tilts toward the sun for its 21-year winter.
Polar caps form during seasons when the poles are illuminated by the sun.
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A bright storm was also seen forming just below the polar caps.
“The number, frequency and location of these storms in Uranus’ atmosphere likely depend on a combination of seasonal and meteorological influences,” NASA said in a press release.
Uranus is also in the solar systema particularly strange planetIt is said thatThe rotation axis is approximately 98 degrees with respect to the orbitleaningThis makes it appear as if it is lying on its side and rotating around the sun.Thereforesolar systemThis is the most extreme season.For example, the orbital period of Uranus is approximately 84 years, and the polar regions of the north and south areperiod of sunlightand periods of no illumination each last for 42 years, and winter lasts for 21 years.
Uranus’s axial tilt is the strangest of any planet in the solar system.
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