Uranus may leak gas into space at least once a day

BGR.com ^ | November 16, 2020 | Mike Wehner

[CheshireTheCat]

Uranus is weird. It’s unlike any other planet in our solar system for a number of reasons, but its most bizarre feature is that it rotates at a roughly 90-degree angle to all the other planets. Scientists believe that its strange orientation is due to an impact that the planet sustained early in its life, but they’re just beginning to understand how this particular circumstance is affecting the planet on a day-to-day basis.

In a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists explain that, based on models of the planet and its magnetosphere, it’s likely that the solar wind streaming from the Sun actually enters and flows through the magnetosphere rather than flowing around it....

[CheshireTheCat]

As long as Uranus is working from home these days, it does not matter how leaky he is.

[Gahanna Bob]

What a headline.

[PhiloBedo]

This is going to be good, if not sophomoric.

[wardamneagle]

I’m at least 2 times a day. What’s the deal.

[JudyinCanada]

Seriously. Uranus leaks gas. Got it.

[Grimmy]

Uranus might by Myanus don’t.

Well, not that I’d admit anyway.

[GreyFriar]

Given the right or not right mixture of food one eats, people have this problem every day.

[DannyTN]

Once a day and I might still have my last girlfriend.

[CheshireTheCat]

I’m hoping it’s good and that I haven’t wasted my time posting it.

We can all use some comic relief these days, I think.

[OKSooner]

How many bazillions of dollars did they spend on telescopes and astronomers and stuff to figure out something like this?

[a fool in paradise]

There’s a vaccine for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_YB-K2kzls

[Lmo56]

Any five-year-old could have told you that ...

[AFB-XYZ]

You just can’t make this sh*t up!

[Jonty30]

Myanus does that at least twice a day.

[crusty old prospector]

Mine is on a one-minute schedule.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I was tooting like a marching band after eating Thai suki (hot pot) and couldn’t figure it out until I realized I’d had most of a can of baked beans for lunch before that.

Bush’s fault.

https://bushbeans.com/en_US/products/baked-beans

[real saxophonist]

Holst The Planets - Uranus, the Magician

[Pearls Before Swine]

Once an Earth day of 24 hours? Or an Uranus revolution, however long that takes?

[rsobin]

Does Uranus have a black hole?

[BitWielder1]

I thought all planets lose some of their atmosphere to deep space all the time.
That's how Mars lost most of it's atmosphere and the lighter bodies like Mercury and most moons have almost none.