Patrick Irwin, of Oxford University in England, and his colleagues have studied the air around Uranus, and found, among other things, that it stinks. Its most unpleasant smell is caused by hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that gives rotten eggs their unmistakable odor.  Using the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), an instrument on the 26-foot Gemini […]

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