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A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.
When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...
Uranus eclipsed a star, giving scientists a rare peek into its atmosphere. The event could spark momentum for a future ...
On April 7, 2025, star HIP 16271 was occulted by Uranus. As a star, it is by no means famous. A yellow-white star in the ...
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NASA Studies Uranus’ Atmosphere in Rare Occultation
NASA scientists seized a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere during a stellar occultation, when the planet passed ...
Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.
A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial objects—including exoplanets ...
Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a longer day on Uranus than previously thought, correcting data from 1986 and reshaping ...