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These high-energy stellar winds blow stellar wind bubbles. In planetary nebula NGC 6565, a cloud of gas was ejected from the star after strong stellar winds. [8] G-type stars like the Sun have a wind driven by their hot, magnetized corona. The Sun's wind is called the solar wind.
Solar wind hit Uranus and dramatically compressed its magnetosphere, likely pushing plasma out of it. But the solar wind also made Uranus’ magnetosphere more dynamic by feeding it with electrons ...
Zonal wind speeds on Uranus. Shaded areas show the southern collar and its future northern counterpart. The red curve is a symmetrical fit to the data. The emergence of a dark spot on the hemisphere of Uranus that was in darkness for many years indicates that near equinox Uranus entered a period of elevated weather activity. [5]
Alone but certainly unique, Uranus rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle and is surrounded by 13 icy rings. Images of which were captured in rich detail last year by the James Webb Space Telescope .
Uranus and Neptune are there in the sky, too, but not bright enough to view without the aid of binoculars or a telescope, which makes it a great time to visit your local planetarium or observatory.
In a March 1782 treatise, Johann Elert Bode proposed Uranus, the Latinised version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. [47] Bode argued that the name should follow the mythology so as not to stand out as different from the other planets, and that Uranus was an appropriate name as the father of the first generation of the Titans . [ 47 ]
It is also known as a lagas in the sky which comes from the Cornish language term for the sun dog lagas awel meaning 'weather's eye' (lagas, 'eye' and awel, 'weather/wind'). This is in turn related to the Anglo-Cornish term cock's eye for a halo round the Sun or the Moon, also a portent of bad weather. [16]
In 1986, Nasa’s Voyager 2 flew by the seventh planet in the Solar System, providing scientists with their first and only glimpse of Uranus, and shaping their understanding of it since.