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Webb Maps Uranus’ ‘Strange’ Auroras for the First Time https://petapixel.com/2026/02/24/webb-maps-uranus-strange-auroras-for-the-first-time/ #jameswebbspacetelescope #science #planet #uranus #Space #space #News #jwst #webb

Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/uranus-january-2025/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Uranus #Astronomy #SpaceExploration #NASA #WebbTelescope

APOD from 2026-02-24

#Planet Parade over Sydney Opera House

This week, just after sunset, #Mercury, #Venus, #Saturn, and #Jupiter are visible to the naked eye in a line from the horizon. #Uranus and #Neptune can be seen with a #telescope. Best viewed this weekend globally along the ecliptic plane.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260224.html#space #astronomy #planets #earth

I honestly think some scientists just study #Uranus for headline giggles. But it's pretty cool.

Those auroras around Uranus.

https://gizmodo.com/webb-just-spent-17-hours-staring-at-uranus-and-found-its-auroras-are-even-weirder-than-we-thought-2000724794

#science

Don't worry -- #JWST heard you -- here's aurora on #Uranus (heh)

📷 :https://flic.kr/p/2rXrWvK

#Aurora #SolarSystem #Space #Science #Astrophotography #astrodon #astronomy #Webb #NASA #ESA

Image description from source in toot: Collage of time-stamped images of Uranus's upper atmosphere, showing auroras. Four images are in a square on the left and one large image is on the right. In each of the four images on the left, the time is located in the bottom left corner of each: top left: 09:10 UTC, top right: 12:45 UTC, bottom left: 16:30 UTC, bottom right: 20:15 UTC." In the large image on the right, the words "Uranus 19-20 Jan 2025" are in the upper left corner, "0:37 UTC" and "Webb/NIRSpec" in the bottom left, and a key of altitude ranging from 500km to 5000km, blue to red, is in the bottom right.

Each image shows the planet Uranus set against the blackness of space. The planet appears as a smooth, bright cyan disc at the center, its atmosphere reveals soft, hazy tones of blue. Surrounding the planet is a vivid reddish glow, forming a diffuse halo that contrasts strongly with the cool blue of the planetary disc. Encircling Uranus are several thin, concentric rings, visible as pale gray arcs. Subtle variations in brightness can be seen across the planet’s face, with slightly brighter patches near the limb, hinting at atmospheric structure.

Monday, February 23rd, 2026

Today the #Moon 🌒 continues in #Taurus, bringing ♉

a focus to physical needs. 🍲

As the Moon joins #Uranus,

we could see some

unexpected developments. ⚡

Make way for ➡️

new information 📰

as the Moon shifts into #Gemini! 🧐

Details in this video https://youtu.be/hpiTPN2HW0c

#SelfCare #Astrology #AstrologyHeals #EvolutionaryAstrology #Horoscope #Zodiac

2:55pm Uranus by Steve Berrios & Son Bachéche from First World
#SteveBerriosSonBacheche #Uranus #SalsaConJazz #KUVO

The Webb telescope watched Uranus for 17hrs to create this video of a complete rotation and massive aurora!

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/02/Uranus_rotation_in_timelapse

#space #science #uranus #WebbTelescope

Scientists create first ever 3D map of Uranus. Which seems a tad redundant given the bajllions of photos

https://interestingengineering.com/science/first-ever-3d-map-of-uranus-upper-atmosphere?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

#stem #science #space #astronomy #interesting #Uranus

Webb onthult verborgen lagen van de bovenste atmosfeer van Uranus
Astronomen hebben voor het eerst de verticale structuur van de ionosfeer van Uranus in kaart gebracht. Daarbij ontdekten ze onverwachte
#ijsreus #ionosfeer #planeet #temperatuur #uranus #WebbSpaceTelescope #zonnestelsel
https://www.kuuke.nl/webb-onthult-verborgen-lagen-van-de-bovenste-atmosfeer-van-uranus/

Miranda’s Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There’s Life Clinging On Around Uranus https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/mirandas-unlikely-ocean-has-us-asking-if-theres-life-clinging-on-around-uranus/
#Science #Space #Extraterrestriallife #Extraterrestrialwater #Miranda #Planetaryscience #Uranus

Miranda’s Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There’s Life Clinging On Around Uranus

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/mirandas-unlikely-ocean-has-us-asking-if-theres-life-clinging-on-around-uranus/

<div><img alt="Miranda, as imaged by Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="449" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20241028-Miranda-Voyager2.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has been an obvious choice since before the Space Age; in the orbit of Jupiter, Europa’s oceans have been of interest since Voyager’s day; the geysers of Enceladus give Saturn two moons of interest, if you count the possibility of a methane-based chemistry on Titan. Even faraway Neptune’s giant moon Triton probably has an ocean layer deep inside. Now the planet Uranus is getting in on the act, offering its moon Miranda for consideration in a kinda-recent<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad77d7" target="_blank"> study in the Planetary Science Journal.</a></p>
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<figure class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_920635" style="width: 189px;"><a href="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Montage_of_Uranus_and_Miranda.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-920635" height="250" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Montage_of_Uranus_and_Miranda.jpg?w=189" width="189" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-92063

JWST takes a belfie

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_maps_Uranus_s_mysterious_upper_atmosphere?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

#stem #science #space #astronomy #cool #Uranus

2026-02-20 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-13)

URANUS
- Distance (km): 2,921,655,418.80 km (+17,834,269.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 19.53 (+0.12)
- Light travel time: 2 h 42 min 25.59 s (+59.49 s)
- Orbital speed: 6.71 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

Image: Alien aurorae spotted on Uranus by Hubble
Credit: NASA Goddard

#Uranus #Space #SolarSystem

Uranus collage (January 2025, annotated) 🛰️🪐

#Uranus

▶️ 1 new picture from ESA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uranus_collage_%28January_2025%2C_annotated%29_ESA518025.jpg

JWST Discovers the Vertical Structure of #Uranus' Ionosphere: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119304 -> Webb maps the mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2602/ - Webb provides the first vertical view of the planet’s ionosphere, revealing auroras shaped by its tilted magnetic field.

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Using Webb’s NIRSpec instrument, the team detected the faint glow from molecules high above the clouds. These unique data provide the most detailed portrait yet of where the planet’s auroras form, how they are influenced by its unusually tilted magnetic field, and how Uranus’s atmosphere has continued to cool over the past three decades. The results offer a new window into how ice-giant planets distribute energy in their upper layers.

Stopover at Oshpak's House on Titania (Uranus' third moon) to pay an Aegis Core fine. I even tended the bar and saw a shaken traveler after a guard scan. Titania's easy to miss, so we doubled back. Catch the next Sol Tour stream Wednesday at 6 PM CT. #EliteDangerous #Uranus #Odyssey #SpaceExploration

Monday, February 16th, 2026

Tomorrow's #SolarEclipse 🌑 in #Aquarius ♒

invites us to:

✨ access new ideas 💡
✨ align with a vision for the future 💫
✨ work in communities to make it happen 🌎

#Uranus is in #Taurus, emphasizing

a need to uphold our values 📜

through clearsighted vision. 👀

More about Uranus, and the Moon's

conjunction to #Mars...

Details in this video https://youtu.be/V4cn-3_lzMM

#SelfCare #Astrology #AstrologyHeals #EvolutionaryAstrology #Horoscope #Zodiac

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how #planets form.

Four planets orbit LHS 1903 — a red dwarf #star, the most common type of star in the #universe — and are arranged in a peculiar sequence.

The innermost #planet is rocky, while the next two are gaseous, and then, unexpectedly, the outermost planet is also rocky.

This arrangement contradicts a pattern commonly seen across the galaxy and in our own solar system, where the rocky planets (#Mercury, #Venus, #Earth and #Mars) orbit closer to the sun and the gaseous ones (#Jupiter, #Saturn, #Uranus and #Neptune) are farther away.

Astronomers suspect this common pattern arises because planets form within a disk of gas and dust around a young star, where temperatures are much higher close to the celestial body.

In these inner regions, volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide are vaporized while only materials that can withstand extreme heat — such as iron and rock-forming minerals — can clump together into solid grains. The planets that form there are therefore primarily rocky.

A discovery of a planet breaking this pattern is telling about anomalies in the common formation process.

#exoplanets #astronomy
https://www.ksl.com/article/51447598/astronomers-detect-a-solar-system-they-say-should-not-be-possible

A serene glimpse of the ice giant Uranus from our travels. The calm before the next journey into the black. #EliteDangerous #SpaceExploration #Uranus

#Uranus

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