A new study may help to solve a 39-year-old mystery, suggesting that Uranus is not so bizarre after all; Voyager 2 just imaged it during an unusual gust of solar "wind". The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The iconic Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and still going to this day, were sent with the primary objective of studying the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.

But on their way ( eventually ) out of the Solar System, due to a fortunate planetary alignment which only occurs every 175 years, Voyager 2 went on to be the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune , arriving January 24, 1986. The spacecraft became the first, and so far only, mission to take photographs of Uranus. As well as discovering a new moo

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