i took 100mg of chocolates nearly an hour ago, and im in *tim curry voice* antici-PATION

uranus wins for giving me the most sense of unease and vertigo

congratulations uranus, youve done a fine job

uranus / cosmos / cognitohazard 

anyway i wasnt expectnig uranus to look like this (i had blocked it out i guess)

uranus / cosmos / cognitohazard 

@joshua Uranus actually looks a lot like a slightly more greenish and much cloudier version of Neptune - the "basically a featureless teal sphere" look was caused by the fact Voyager 2's cameras had absolutely shit sensitivity in the red band.

Compare a more recent image by Hubble.

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