Posted on 04/11/2017 6:50:12 PM PDT by LouieFisk
Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have been hooked on auroras on other planets. Auroras are caused by streams of charged particles like electrons that come from various origins such as solar winds, the planetary ionosphere, and moon volcanism. They become caught in powerful magnetic fields and are channeled into the upper atmosphere, where their interactions with gas particles, such as oxygen or nitrogen, set off spectacular bursts of light.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Not exactly my dream headline, but it contains “Uranus”, so it will do.
I knew it was horribly aghast but I didn’t realize it had it’s own aurora.
Klingons and now auroras.
No smoking.
If you can’t say anything without your anus, don’t say anything at all.
At least we finally know where all the Oldsmobiles went.
“Not exactly my dream headline, but it contains “Uranus”, so it will do.”
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How about:
“Hubble Sees Something Huge Coming Out of Uranus”
(Mysterious Universe)
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/04/hubble-sees-something-huge-coming-out-of-uranus
Back in the Middle Ages, ‘Uranus’ was used as a derogatory term in addressing an unpopular king. As in ‘Yes, Uranus’.
Thanks for makin’ me lol!
My ass they did...
Mexican food.
Those aren’t Auroras! ewwww
Lots of fun with this story.
Re Rings around Uranus. Somebody is not practicing good hygience.
Now if they said that there were rings around Schumer’s butt, I’d say that they were not rings but just big Democrat buttkisser marks from his adorers.
Two: They are going to need a very big tube of Preparation H to get rid of rings that size.
Three: Are auroras the interplanetary equivalent of STDs? Hey, they said they appeared on Uranus. I didn’t. Atmospheric skin rashes?
With all this attention on Uranus, you’d think that some astronomers were interplanetary proctologists too.
Now, don’t get me started on jokes about “black holes”. So much to work with, so little time, but propriety does take precedence here. Darn it.
The same for the quote “To go where no man has gone before”.
Oh the ability of using the English language to completely trash civility and modesty. Ain’t it great?
Always wanted to be an astronomer but now I see that my astronomy stops at Uranus. Federal and Interspacial modesty laws, you know.
Yeah! Why is the fedzilla spying on innocent Uraniums?!!?
We all know exactly why you posted this.
Well, at least you didn’t post it in Breaking News.
;-)
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