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  • Astronomers Think They Know The Reason For Uranus's Kooky Off-Kilter Axis

    10/04/2022 9:02:12 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    Science Alert ^ | 03 October 2022 | By MICHELLE STARR
    an image of uranus taken using the keck observatory. The planet appears to glow blue against the darkness, with thin, gossamer rings wrapped vertically around its middle Uranus as imaged by the Keck Observatory. (Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory) Uranus marches to the beat of its own weird little drum. Although it shares many similarities with our Solar System's other ice giant, Neptune, it has a bunch of quirks that are all its own. And one of these is impossible to miss: Its rotational axis is so skewed it may as well be lying down. That's a whopping...