The first image of the eclipse of the celestial star Uranus

While solar eclipses often occur in two larger planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, for celestial stars, this phenomenon has never been observed until now.

The Hubble telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has just obtained the first image of an eclipse on Uranus (Uranus): Ariel satellites flying through the distance between the Sun and Uranus.

Heavenly King is a very special planet. Discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1781, this 25,500 km diameter giant gas has a horizontal axis on its own orbit, while other planets have an almost perpendicular axis. with orbit or slightly tilted.

This unexplained anomaly causes the polar regions of Uranus to receive the most energy from the Sun, not the equator.

(Photo: NASA)

Uranus has 29 satellites that orbit the planet's equator. In the course of flying around the Sun for 84 years, the " Sun straight line - satellite - Thien Vuong " only appears every 42 years (times A and B).

(Photo: Pioneers) This rare phenomenon was recorded by Hubble telescope on July 26, when Ariel satellite (a block of ice) flew in front of Uranus and cast a shadow on the planet's surface.

In the previous solar eclipse, in 1965, terrestrial telescopes did not have optical devices to clearly observe this phenomenon.

Ariel satellite, taking the name of a character in William Shakespeare's " Storm ", is 1,162 km in diameter, equivalent to 1/3 of our Moon's size.

Solar eclipse by Ariel covered the Sun is the beginning of a series of similar phenomena that will take place in 2007 or 2008, when other large satellites like Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon fly through the distance between the Sun and the stars one after the other. Thien Vuong.

And all these phenomena only recur in . 2049.