Compared to the other planets – which spin elegantly nearly upright as they orbit our local star – Uranus almost seems as if it’s rolling around the sun, like a rolling ball.Įarth’s axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from perpendicular with respect to the plane of our orbit around the sun. It’s because Uranus’ spin axis is extremely tilted with respect to its orbit around the sun. Uranus has bizarre seasons, in contrast to Earth and the other major planets in this solar system. As we explore exoplanets and their distant solar systems – or think about planetary moons, or asteroids – who knows what range of differences we’ll find? But we do know this. That’s our earthly perspective, at least. The seasons of Uranus are strange, when contrasted with Earth’s seasons. It shows widespread stormy cloud cover over the planet’s north pole. This image of Uranus was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in November 2018.
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