{"id":13455,"date":"2025-07-16T05:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13455\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:42:03","slug":"probe-of-uranus-finally-reveals-where-distant-planet-gets-its-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13455\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe of Uranus finally reveals where distant planet gets its heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheeky!<\/p>\n

A study has finally determined where Uranus gets its heat.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus\u2019 data \u2014 and determined that the gas giant is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study<\/a> published in Geophysical Research Letters.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a scientific perspective, this study helps us better understand Uranus and other giant planets,\u201d said Wang of UH\u2019s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in a release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"VoyagerUranus\u2019 heat has been a mystery since NASA\u2019s Voyager 2 passed by the gaseous giant in 1986 and measured an incredibly low level. AP<\/p>\n

Any semblance of warmth on the sun\u2019s seventh planet \u2014 which has a surface temp of -320 degrees Fahrenheit \u2014 has been a mystery since a NASA analysis of Voyager 2 data in 1986 suggested the planet did not have internal heat. That conclusion was at odds with science\u2019s general understanding of how planets form and evolve.<\/p>\n

But the new study found that in fact Uranus generates 12.5% more heat internally than it receives from the sun, which is 1.8 billion miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means it\u2019s still slowly losing leftover heat from its early history, a key piece of the puzzle that helps us understand its origins and how it has changed over time,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n

Uranus is still behind planets such as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune in terms of how much heat it emits.<\/p>\n

Those planets emit 100% more heat than they get from the sun.<\/p>\n

\"HubbleThe seventh planet from the Sun has been discovered to generate its own heat, contradicting previous conclusions from the Voyager 2 probe. AP<\/p>\n

The amount of heat emanating from Uranus varies by season \u2014 but those seasons can take more than 20 years, according to scientists.<\/p>\n

These long seasons could be the reason for the Voyager 2 readings in 1986, which may have been skewed by a surge in solar weather during the flyby, according to Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Uranus may meanwhile soon have a moon that could house alien life, researchers have said.<\/p>\n

The planet\u2019s moon, Miranda<\/a>, has sources of water hidden beneath its surface that could play a role in the expansion of humans through the solar system, according to a study from Johns Hopkins and the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheeky! A study has finally determined where Uranus gets its heat. Researchers from the University of Houston, led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6625,1728,79,780,193,13059],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-planets","tag-research","tag-science","tag-solar-system","tag-space","tag-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}