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4 Years Ago
Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2’s Visit
The planet is shedding its atmosphere into the void, a signal that was recorded but
overlooked in 1986 when the robotic spacecraft flew past.
By Robin George Andrews
New York Times
March 27, 2020
Uranus is unquestionably weird. Swirling with mostly water, methane and ammonia, the solar system’s seventh planet is tipped over at 98 degrees, so its magnetic poles take turns directly facing the sun. And its magnetic field is strangely misaligned with the planet’s rotation, causing it to wildly lurch about.
Back in 1986, the ice giant world got what remains its only visitor from Earth — Voyager 2, which is now more than 11 billion miles from Earth, but at that time flew a mere 50,600 miles above Uranus’s cloudy skies. As it passed, Voyager 2 heard an odd magnetic whisper, a signal so ephemeral that it went unnoticed.
More than three decades later, scientists were taking a deep dive into the venerable spacecraft’s data pool, hoping to find scientific mysteries that could help support a return mission to Uranus and its ice giant sibling, Neptune. They unearthed that magnetic hiccup, and realized it represented the detection of a mass of electrically excited gas with a width 10 times Earth’s circumference.
This ginormous bubble was a jettisoned part of Uranus’s atmosphere. Although only one was spotted, other gassy missiles may also be launched every 17 hours, the time it takes Uranus to complete one rotation.
For complete article... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/science/uranus-bubble-voyager.html?referringSource=articleShare
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4 Years Ago
There is a huge reason some artists are very lonely. Not pointing any figures.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
LOL Rich...
David, not me...
I think the NYTimes just thought we needed some levity just now
Drew... Nothing personal here but to quote Monty Python's Holy Grail:
"'I fart in your general generation!"
Tom, true dat...
My original title for this post was Uranus Passes Gas,
I didn't want to seem too crude
4 Years Ago
......Whether my anus has ejected a giant bubble or not, is nobody's business but MINE!!.............................................................
................................Oh it's "Uranus".....................................Never Mind
(RIP Gilda)
4 Years Ago
It was only a matter of time.. Voyager 2 kept going, safely on its way..
Whoever named the planet should be held accountable.
4 Years Ago
Fortunately I have my containment space separate from some of you.
Socially separate clean air.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
I'm the same way 17 hours after corned beef and cabbage.
Ed Meredith, I'm happy to see you!
PLAU
UPD
4 Years Ago
Ed, I'm just wondering if it was just one big ball of hot air or if it was a smelly mass? :-)
4 Years Ago
Abbie,
smh, they are so juvenile.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
LOL...
only nine bad boys showed up on this "science" thread to comment
and one woman to tsk tsk us for our behavior... lol
now pull my finger...
Hi Uther, happy to be seen.
4 Years Ago
Ed,
Here's another relationship, kinda sorta, Taco Tuesday.....Black Holes.....I rest my case....
Rich
4 Years Ago
Uranus:
Girl's name meaning, origin, and popularity.
They named her Uranus, and she was until she transgendered to male
and now they just call him an... well you know .......
Rich, I guess I'll see you in detention... lol
4 Years Ago
Uranus sounds like what a royal would be called.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
data overflow ...
Not the first case of not seeing the woods because of the many trees (like 9/11).
4 Years Ago
Too crowded on this thread, Ed.
Follow health expert's great advice to keep your social distance six feet away from others, otherwise own so-called Bubble "Uranus" could be burst.
4 Years Ago
Uranus: in Greek cosmology, the god who personifies the heavens, father of the Titans.
Oddly, Titan is a moon of Jupiter.
Uranus' atmosphere is similar to Jupiter's and Saturn's in its primary composition of hydrogen and helium, but it contains more "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane, along with traces of other hydrocarbons. (wikipedia)
Its that ammonia and methane and hydrocarbons that will getcha.
4 Years Ago
Ed,
I am tempted to go out and buy a hair drier, but they are out of stock.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
Gregory,
Titus was Rembrandt's only son. And that is a true artist's ego.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
If any of you get on the highway near route 66 in Missouri look for the signs for the Uranus fudge factory... yes they sell fudge and when you walk out all members working say in a loud and clear voice... "Thanks for visiting Uranus!!!
I had to post... sorry Abbie...
4 Years Ago
smh, Jeff, you are letting the team down.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
Ed, I listened to the Flori-duh's professional advice in your video, I used a heat gun as a "scientific" application to kill Coronavirus. I don't know whether I'm cured from the "Wuhan flu". But I have recognized that my mustache is curled. Anyway, there are millions of silly advices of how to terminate Trump's "China virus" on social media -'lol'
4 Years Ago
Abbie,
Took me to few moments to filter through the English accents. Cockney would do.
We say more of an "U rain us"
Abbie will know this one, but not sure others here will. My dad says "e me jet ly" three short e's. schwa sounds for the first two e's.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
Viet Tran,
If you only knew the half of it. LOL
As Savad has pointed out, we are waiting for week 15.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
https://www.quiz-bliss.com/angie/quiz-only-1-in-50-people-can-identify-these-16-grammar-mistakes-can-you?fbclid=IwAR0vNm_H10EhGVFMw3SWDe0k0_6rLln0Er2y2uFPJRgfIG6Rak8LLA7j4vE
Are you the grammar police? Quick quiz.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
100%
No doubt about it, there isn't a grammar mistake in the world that could slip past your nose. You snuff out bad grammar and spelling mistakes like it's your last day on earth! You have a love for English and grammar! You LOVE a perfectly structured sentence and discovering out of place commas! No doubt about it, you know how to write properly!
Now.... it is 'you're an ass' and back to Ed's topic
4 Years Ago
Lm'little'ao
Feel better soon Abbie,
addition, hold on, there is a topic?
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
100%. I do not consider myself an expert. I had a hard time diagramming sentences, but I enjoyed that immensely.
www.angryflower.com/247.html
Evidently I have forgotten how to code a link on this site. Sorry, cut and paste.
4 Years Ago
:"The rings of uranus will be explored..."
is what I was told when abducted by aliens and brought aboard their ship.
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Stunning New Pics Reveal The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
Michelle Starr
21 June 2019
Saturn may be the most showy, but it's not the only planet in the Solar System circled by rings.
And the 13 rings around Uranus just spilled previously unknown details when they photobombed
a thermal image astronomers took of the ice planet.
https://www.sciencealert.com/amazing-images-of-uranus-rings-show-they-re-unlike-anything-else-in-the-solar-system
4 Years Ago
It was truly amazing how Star Trek included klingons.
Dave Bridburg
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4 Years Ago
It is 11:52 am, have you had your gourmet meal yet?
I have
This time the saute was over a chicken biryani.
Dave Bridburg
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Post Modern Gallery