What’s Up: January 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Dec 30, 2024 · All month after dark, you’ll find Venus and Saturn in the southwest for the first couple of hours, while Jupiter shines brightly high overhead, and Mars rises in the east. Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don’t appear as “bright planets.”
Uranus: Facts - NASA Science
Dec 31, 2024 · Uranus is slightly larger in diameter than its neighbor Neptune, yet smaller in mass. It is the second least dense planet; Saturn is the least dense of all. Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas in the atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and is reflected back out by Uranus’ cloud tops.
Saturn vs Uranus [How Do The Planets Differ?] - Astronomy Scope
Jan 4, 2023 · The main differences between Saturn and Uranus are to do with their sizes, orbits, temperatures, and many other differing characteristics. Saturn is bigger than Uranus, and it’s also hotter, with a higher surface and core temperature.
Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · Explore NASA's real-time science encyclopedia and compare the sizes of planets in our solar system.
All About Uranus | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Jan 14, 2025 · Uranus is made of water, methane, and ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium like Jupiter and Saturn, but it also has methane. The methane makes Uranus blue.
See 6 Planets Align on January 21 - WIRED
Jan 17, 2025 · On January 21, six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will be visible simultaneously in the sky, and their alignment will be easily visible from almost all parts of the ...
All About Saturn | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Jun 8, 2023 · Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. That means Jupiter and Uranus are Saturn’s neighboring planets. Saturn has been known since ancient times because it can be seen without advanced telescopes. Four robotic spacecraft have visited Saturn, including Pioneer 11, Cassini, and Voyager 1 and 2. What does Saturn look like?
In Depth | Uranus – NASA Solar System Exploration
Uranus is slightly larger in diameter than its neighbor Neptune, yet smaller in mass. It is the second least dense planet; Saturn is the least dense of all. Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas in the atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and is reflected back out by Uranus' cloud tops.
Uranus: Exploration - Science@NASA
Nov 4, 2024 · Observations before and after the main event led to a major discovery: Uranus, like Saturn, is encircled with rings. Jan. 24, 1986: NASA’s Voyager 2 made the first – and so far the only – visit to Uranus. The spacecraft came within 50,600 miles (81,500 kilometers) of …
Uranus - Wikipedia
The discovery of Uranus also effectively doubled the size of the known Solar System because Uranus is around twice the distance from the Sun as the planet Saturn. Before its recognition as a planet, Uranus had been observed on numerous occasions, albeit generally misidentified as …