Super-sized Storms Spotted Erupting on Uranus!

First off, you know it’s pronounced “YOOR-ah-nus,” right? Okay, good. Let’s move on.

As hurricanes take aim at Hawaii, astronomers in Hawaii aimed their telescopes at storms raging on another planet: distant Uranus, the tilted ice giant orbiting the sun nearly 20 times farther away than Earth.




It’s not just one storm, either; several have appeared in infrared images of Uranus, including one enormous storm that’s even bigger than a previously-observed giant that was nicknamed “Berg” because of its resemblance to an iceberg drifting through polar seas.


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