from the snickering-like-a-13-year-old-boy dept.
🚀 - Space - Scientists from NASA have been studying Uranus through the Hubble telescope and during this time they have seen many bursts of solar wind hit the planet. Then they realized that this wind was behind huge intense auroras coming of Uranus which then circled the planet. It was also said that the magnetic poles that disappeared in Uranus during 1986 have now been found.
[...] The findings are one part of a study that is ongoing into auroras found on other planets. Just as when they happen on Earth, the light shows are spectacular on other planets. They are caused by the solar winds charged particles or cosmic rays that get caught by the ionosphere of the planet and magnetic field and then crash into the gas particles, which then creates bursts of light, which are seen by astronomers or the inhabitants of the planet.
Some of the first pictures of Uranus were taken by Voyager 2 in 1986 and since that time NASA has relied on telescopes that are based on Earth for pictures. The Hubble telescope first took photographs of Uranus when the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph that had been installed on the telescope was repaired and it went back into service. In 2012 and 2014 ultraviolet photos had been taken. The timing was in coordination with two huge bursts of wind tracked to Uranus which caused the huge auroras.
http://www.disclose.tv/news/nasa_captured_something_huge_coming_out_of_uranus/138523
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Additional reading:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-spots-auroras-on-uranus
http://www.space.com/36416-uranus-auroras-hubble-voyager-photos.html
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:14AM (7 children)
Let me guess, flying monkeys
Sorry
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:28AM (5 children)
Was it a clickbait monkey?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:33AM (4 children)
All monkeys are clickbait. Well known fact.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:21PM
Except for the wonky ones, they just want to fix your grammar.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:45PM (2 children)
Monkey click on bait, publisher happy, me banana ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @07:02PM
I see what you did there, nice.
(Score: 2) by boxfetish on Sunday April 16 2017, @02:26AM
Daylight come and he wan' go home
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:51PM
The headline reminds me of the time I had to drag my 4th grade son to the library to find a book to read for an overdue book report. He didn't want to, and dragged his feet complaining the whole time. A few minutes inside the library I hear this being shouted across the room... "Hey dad, can I do a book report on Uranus?" Smartass.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:48AM (4 children)
I always get that after a Burger King.
Good to know
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:31AM (3 children)
What's going on here... a headline like that and no reference yet to burritos?
I'm sorry, exec, for saying this, but with a headline like that on a forum like this, this whole topic is going to be full of butt jokes.
So much for the creme de la creme of technical folks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @12:57PM (1 child)
Obviously all these people know nothing about technology because an AC posted a shit joke. Hate to break it to you but we're not all rocket scientists, some of us are into brain surgery...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @06:22PM
I like trains!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @01:52PM
All burrito jokes have been deported in favour of recent events [ft.com]. Besides, nobody can do better than TFA:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:06AM
.... now the monkey is trying to get the cork back in
(Score: 2) by esperto123 on Saturday April 15 2017, @01:46PM (1 child)
Really NASA? is this April 1st?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @07:28PM
Instead of "Uranus", try reading the article with that word replaced with "Your anus". It's hilarious!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday April 15 2017, @01:48PM (4 children)
The right way to pronounce the name of this planet is "OO-rah-noos". But that of course makes the jokes not work.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 3, Informative) by deadstick on Saturday April 15 2017, @01:58PM (2 children)
As Asimov pointed out, that is a homophone of urinous, which is not a big improvement.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:50PM (1 child)
I don't think think that's the pronunciation the other poster is describing. It seems the other poster is referring to a Greek pronunciation, which I think is something like: the "oo" from "moon", then the "ra" from "Ramanujan", then the "nos" from "Nostradamus".
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday April 16 2017, @12:08AM
That is exactly correct.
If you wanted to go with a more classical Latin pronunciation, then it would be "uh-rah-nus", with the "u"s pronounced as in "thud".
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:17PM
No, You're a noose! (giggles wildly)
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:55PM
Those things that looks like white clouds are actually auroras?
As the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen the color of excited atoms should be pink?
The rest like helium and methane also seems to be on the red side of colors.
(Score: 1) by Inspired on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:59PM (1 child)
Intergalactic, Planetary?
Planetary, Intergalactic?
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday April 17 2017, @10:08PM
Don't you tell me to stop