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Why is Uranus colder than Neptune?
The seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus has a mean temperature of -195°C (-320°F). Neptune, the eighth and most distant major planet known orbiting our Sun has a mean temperature of -200°C (-330°F). ...
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Why is Uranus colder than Neptune?
The intuition that the temperature of the planet is related to the distance between it and the sun is false as Uranus, being nearer to Sun than Neptune is colder. Astronomers came up with two theories:...
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