Have scientists solved the mystery behind Uranus’ “Frankenstein” moon?

(Uranus’ patchwork moon, known as Miranda, as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe in 1986 – Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Scientist’s may have finally figured out the reason behind the strange appearance of Uranus’ moon Miranda: the smallest and innermost moon which is often compared to Frankenstein’s monster due to its unusual patchwork surface.

NASA observes distant black hole blurring xrays and bending space and time

(Artist’s concept of a black hole and its corona, pictured here as the white light at the base of the jet – Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has witnessed an extreme and rare event in the region immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Nanoflares could explain why the sun’s atmosphere is hotter than its surface

(Photo Credit: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams)

Scientists have gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun’s outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface.

Sun has a much larger solar atmosphere than previously observed

(Scientists used these observations of the sun’s atmosphere to define the outer limits of the corona – Photo Credit: NASA/STEREO)

NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory has discovered that the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona, is much larger than previously believed.