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Sharmila Kuthunur

A day on Uranus is actually longer than we thought, Hubble Telescope reveals

A light blue planet set against the darkness of space.

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands.

A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation — that's 28 seconds longer than the estimate provided by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft nearly four decades ago.

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