News Planetary Science Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by A solar wind event just days earlier may have compressed the giant planet’s magnetosphere When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus (shown here in a false-color infrared image), the probe detected a strange magnetic environment around the planet. That may have been a fluke of timing. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Lisa Grossman November 11, 2024 at 11:00 am Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing.