Moons
Stunning JWST image of Uranus shows 13 rings and nine moons
Uranus, showing all of its rings and nine of the planet’s 27 moons NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI This amazing shot of Uranus, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has given us our most complete view yet of the planet, with its rings and turbulent atmosphere revealed in glorious detail. In April, JWST used…
Moons around Uranus may suddenly develop atmospheres in the spring
Uranus’s moon Miranda NASA/JPL/USGS The moons of Uranus may have short-lived atmospheres every time the seasons change. The seasons there are so intense that these tenuous atmospheres, called exospheres, could exist briefly twice every Uranian year before freezing and falling back down to the surface. Uranus’s poles are extremely tilted with respect to the planet’s…