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Uranus Bizarre Weather Revealed
2012-10-17 12:09:48

[ Watch the Video: What is Uranus? ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Uranus is coming into more focus than ever with a new technique developed by astronomers and applied at the Keck Observatory. Astronomers reported at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting that they have taken high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing detail of the planet's bizarre weather. The latest details of the seventh planet from the Sun...


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Solar System
2012-10-22 06:09:41

The Solar System refers to the area in space that is dominated by our own Sun. It is comprised of the Sun and its associated astronomical objects that are held in its gravitational orbit. The Solar System was formed as a result of the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The mass of this system is located almost entirely in the Sun. Apart from the Sun, a high percentage of the remainder of the system’s mass is located in the eight solitary planets that...

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