stsci_2020-12a February 19th, 2020
Credit: Left: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute), Right: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. Wong and A. Hsu (University of California, Berkeley)
On the left, Uranus in 2005 displays its ring system. The planet—along with its rings and moons—is tipped on its side, rotating at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. On the right, the Hubble Space Telescope image of Neptune, taken in 2018, shows a new dark storm.
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