No. This is not the planet Saturn. It is the next planet in distance from the Sun - Uranus
No. This is not the planet Saturn. It is the next planet in distance from the Sun - Uranus. Its distance from the sun is 3 billion kilometers, which is 20 times the distance of the earth from the sun. Unlike other planets, Uranus rotates on its side.
That is, the self-rotation axis of Uranus is almost completely in the plane of the planet's orbit. Furthermore, the North Pole is slightly below the orbital plane, meaning that Uranus orbits in the opposite direction to that of the other planets.
In the thick atmosphere - about 9,000 km, which includes hydrogen - 84%, helium - 14%, and methane, there appears an ocean of "mud" 10,000 km thick, consisting of water ice mixed with ammonia and methane, which are also frozen or found in a liquid state . Methane gas is found in the upper layer of the atmosphere and it absorbs all the red light coming from the sun, the blue light is not absorbed and this is what gives Uranus its bluish greenish color.
The image was recently captured by the Giant Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Paranal, Chile.
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so short?