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A recent study in Nature Astronomy reveals that Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus — which has formed much of the scientific understanding of the planet —might have occurred under rare conditions, leading to a potentially skewed understanding of the planet's magnetosphere. Jamie Jasinski and colleagues found that the probe encountered Uranus right after a powerful solar wind event, during which a stream of charged particles was released from the Sun’s atmosphere. This compressed Uranus’s magnetosp