Uranus and Neptune Look Like Twins. Scientists Now Think It’s a Coincidence
“Uranus and Neptune may resemble twins today, but their chemistry is telling us that they are more like cousins with very different histories.”
Via Gizmodo
Despite the iconic documentary, Uranus and Neptune are arguably the real “blue planets” in our solar system. And their visual similarities in part convinced astronomers that they were evolutionary and chemical twins—but looks can deceive, as a new study has found.
In short, the similarities we observe today between Uranus and Neptune may be a coincidence, according to research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Studying recent measurements of carbon monoxide revealed that Neptune’s deep atmosphere has more oxygen than that…
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