Rings Around Uranus -

[mibn2cweus]

- and more.

https://webbtelescope.org/news/news-releases

[DTCwordfan]

life on the moons too possibly - re a proto-atmosphere.

[ToraToraTora]

sounds painful!

[youngmafbog]

Only after a Vindaloo.

Sorry, had to be done.  I will get my coat.

On a serious side very interesting.

[bookbinder]

I find that kind of news very interesting. Does it mean that our planet might one day be like that? It's a distant prospect, I know, but why do some planets turn out like that, and some don't?

[ToraToraTora]

bookbinder: "Does it mean that our planet might one day be like that? It's a distant prospect, I know, but why do some planets turn out like that, and some don't?" - no it's a gas giant with no actual surface. Earth is a rocky planet much smaller but more dense. Also it rotates on it's side so that's why we see the rings like that.

[bookbinder]

Thanks, TTT. So, we can rest easy for a while, then.

[ToraToraTora]

It's tilted at an angle 98 degrees which menas that each pole has 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of darkness. Though one rotation on its axis takes only 17 hours. There are 27 moons of Uranus many named after Shakespere characters.

[mibn2cweus]

I've noticed that Uranus tends to bring out the worst in people.

[naomi24]

^Sperlatt!!  ;o)

 

Fabulous!

[mibn2cweus]

Well, there's lunch.

[naomi24]

Haaaaaa!  Gotcha!

[mibn2cweus]

Unrelated -

[dustypuss]

Rings Around Uranus

I'v got a cream for that.

And the cat.