X-rays From Uranus Wall Art including Frame Sizes:COSMIC (32x48) Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky

Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2

known collectively as II Zw 096

The red is data from the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope showing the hot hydrogen gas in the same region

Credit: ESO/Igor Chekalin

X-rays From Uranus Wall Art including Frame Sizes:COSMIC (32x48) Credit: ESO and Digitized SkyAstronomers have detected X rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASAs Chandra X ray Observatory, as shown in this image from March 2021. This result may help scientists learn more about this enigmatic ice giant planet in our solar system. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has two sets of rings around its equator. The planet, which has four times the diameter of Earth, rotates on its side, making it different from all other planets