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The normally bland face of Uranus has become increasingly stormy, with enormous cloud systems so bright astronomers can see details in the planet’s hazy blue-green atmosphere.
This year, astronomers – both professional and amateur, have been able to see extreme storms on the usually bland visible surface of planet Uranus.
The weather on Uranus is incredibly active, say scientists, but they’re not sure why. Heidi Hammel of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomyis part of the team that first noticed the activity when observing the planet with adaptive optics on the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. She said:
This type of activity would have been expected in 2007, when Uranus’s once-every-42-year equinox occurred and the sun shined directly on the equator. But we predicted that such activity would have died down by now. Why we see these incredible storms now is beyond anybody’s guess.
originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
The WM Keck observatory is capable of seeing Saturn like this:
Why is the image in the video of such low quality?
And it sees stars