#giant planet

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Great Red Spot will eventually leave us. But who knows what else is to come!

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Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer.

He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel (16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848).

On 13 March 1781, while making observations, he made note of a new object in the constellation of Gemini.

This would, after several weeks of verification and consultation with other astronomers, be confirmed to be a new planet, eventually given the name of Uranus.

This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity, and Herschel became famous overnight.

As a result of this discovery, George III appointed him Court Astronomer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and grants were provided for the construction of new telescopes.

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Launched by NASA on 20 August 1977, Voyager 2 is a pioneering space probe that became the first and only human-made object to study all four outer giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — at close range.

It entered interstellar space on 5 November 2018 and continues to send data from over 21 billion kilometers away as of 2026.

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Giant Planets at near-IR wavelengths with adaptive optics

l images not to scale; via ResearchGate

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Also under favorites is the planet of nothing but mechanics, and a planet that is 70% gasoline.

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Newly Discovered Gas-Giant Planet is Hotter Than Most Stars

An international team of scientists, including those from The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University have just released their research into a newly discovered planet with some extremely…