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A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read recently that Uranus has also become a much lighter color than in initial observations. It's almost as if Uranus has been bleached.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 14 points 1 week ago

It hasn’t become that color, it always was that color, we just didn’t take good pictures of it