Eight great photos of Uranus

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Space

[Wile_E]

Ooh, Uranus is pretty!

[Implicit]

Whew, I thought this was another Weiner thread.

The second picture showing the ultraviolet imagery is nifty.

[Cat_Whisperer]

Dammit! I thought I closed those curtains!

[Jenaroph]

Wow, Uranus is big and gassy…

[Idle_Thoughts]

I wonder what those spots are doing all over Uranus? They don’t look good…

[Chimera]

ITS A TRAP!!!

Oh wait, no. It is actually pictures of the planet.

[Sailboat]

There’s an error in those captions.

Photo 3 of 9 says “Because Neptune is at such an extreme axial tilt, the planet experiences different and sometimes violent seasons.” [Bolding mine.] But they surely mean Uranus, not Neptune.

Wikipedia on the axial tilt of each planet:

Uranus has an axial tilt of 97.77 degrees, so its axis of rotation is approximately parallel with the plane of the Solar System. This gives it seasonal changes completely unlike those of the other major planets.

The axial tilt of Neptune is 28.32°,[91] which is similar to the tilts of Earth (23°) and Mars (25°). As a result, this planet experiences similar seasonal changes. The long orbital period of Neptune means that the seasons last for forty Earth years.[76] Its sidereal rotation period (day) is roughly 16.11 hours.[5] Since its axial tilt is comparable to the Earth’s, the variation in the length of its day over the course of its long year is not any more extreme.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Chimera

ITS A TRAP!!!

Oh wait, no. It is actually pictures of the planet.

This would be a kind of perfect thread to rickroll people into clicking on a picture of goatse.

[Markxxx]

Photos? Sure that’s what the want you to believe. I bet they were just photoshopped dodge balls

[lieu]

Hmmm, A. Weiner or Uranus. What to do…