NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently spotted X-rays from Uranus, the seventh planet in our solar system, for the first time. According to a statement from NASA, the new discovery can help scientists learn more about Uranus. Uranus has a diameter four times that of Earth, and it has two sets of rings around its equator. The planet is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium. An unusual feature of this planet is that unlike all other planets in our solar system, Uranus rotates on its side. Voyager 2 was the only spacecraft that ever flew by Uranus. To study this distant planet, astronomers currently rely on ground and space-borne telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. In the new study, researchers used two Chandra observations taken in 2002 and in 2017. They found a clear detection of X-rays from both observations. The second one was more …