March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... seventies by images and data from Mars, Venus, and later even Jupiter, and in the eighties of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These were accompanied by a quantum leap in our knowledge about the Solar System and the...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
...-ochre appearance of Saturn gave way at these cold winter latitudes to blue hues more reminiscent of the appearance of Uranus and Neptune. This blue colour, derived from skies clear of aerosols, hinted at seasonal effects that might...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... by a substantial atmosphere. “It turns out that the density of HD21749b is between the density of Earth and Neptune/Uranus. Since it is less dense than Earth, it cannot be just rocky - it probably has a rocky core surrounded by an atmosphere...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... it comes to the Moon. Why might this be so? Many of the planets in our solar system have axial tilts - Uranus for example has a spin axis tilted by a staggering 98 degrees, meaning it essentially spins on its side. The Earth...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
.... The full version of Celestial Black by Andrea Hamilton is available at www.andreahamilton.com/celestial-black. The planet Uranus seen from its moon Umbriel in a painting by artist Ron Miller.
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... the asteroid belt and beyond to the gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn, and the ice giants of Uranus and Neptune in the cold, dark outer reaches of the solar system beyond. Then, in the century after...
