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Probing Uranus Is Our Next Space Exploration Priority

Probing Uranus Is Our Next Space Exploration Priority

It was named right after the Queen of the Fairies in “A Midsummer’s Evening Dream,” a play by Shakespeare. Miranda is the smallest and closest of Uranus’s major moons. The moon was named right after a character in “The Tempest,” a play by Shakespeare. Even so, the star’s light was blocked prior to and soon after it disappeared behind the planet. From this, they figured out that the planet had a ring system. If one particular monitors carefully, one can…

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