The fastest among the planets to complete one rotation are the gas giants, with Jupiter completing a day in 10 hours, Saturn in 11 hours, Uranus in 17 hours, and Neptune in just 16 hours.

This technique revealed that Uranus completes a full rotation in 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds—28 seconds longer than the estimate obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.

The recent discovery of Uranus’s day is an essential milestone in planetary science. Scientists have better understood the planet’s rotation using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.

That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun.

By comparing measurements of that field, astronomers were able to estimate the planet’s rotation at 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 24 seconds. Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of ...

A gas planet's thick atmosphere, filled with clouds, typically shows the same rate of rotation at the top and bottom. But on Uranus, it seems, the southern hemisphere is cycling much more quickly ...

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. ... 14 minutes, and 24 seconds) to complete one full rotation.

A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation — 28 seconds longer than the ...

That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun.

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds.. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was ...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and was the first to be discovered with a telescope. ... with its magnetic axis tipped nearly 60 degrees away from the planet's axis of rotation.

A day at Uranus just got a little longer. ... 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation. That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. ...