New Delhi: Astronomers made an important breakthrough when they measured Uranus’s rotation rate with exceptional precision through NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data compiled for twelve years. Scientists led by Laurent Lamy at Observatoire de Paris-PSL deployed an innovative auroral observation method which helped their international team establish that Uranus rotates in 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds. The latest estimate determined Uranus requires 28 seconds more to spin once than NASA detected during Voyager 2‘s flyby in 1986.

This discovery not only improves our knowledge of Uranus but also finally explains the perplexing observations which complicated scientific observations for decades.........

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