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Infrared Aurora on Uranus Confirmed For The First Time By Astronomers

Ever since astronomers began to observe the cosmos with modern sophisticated telescopes, they have never spotted infrared aurora on Uranus. However, scientists recently studied the archived data obtained from the giant Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to confirm the existence of infrared aurora on Uranus for the first time. Auroras on Uranus […]

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Two Moons of Uranus May Have Active Subsurface Oceans that Pump Materials into Space, Scientists Discover in a New Study

Astronomers have earlier discovered that Uranus has 27 known moons around its orbit. A new study revealed that one/two of these moons of Uranus may have subsurface oceans that pump materials into space. NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft which passed the Uranian system around four decades ago discovered some features in radiation data it collected from

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