New research shows Uranus smells like rotten eggs

A new research has claimed that the planet Uranus is a stinky one and it is as stinky as rotten eggs.

Published in the journal Natural Astronomy, the study showed that the seventh planet of our solar system, Uranus, is surrounded by a colorless gas hydrogen sulphide (H₂S), resulting in the planet to smell like rotten eggs, according to Time.

The data was detected using observations from an instrument Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectometer (NIFS) at the Gemini North observatory in Hawaii. The observatory is a high-power telescope on top of a Hawaiian volcano.

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The stinking gas was discovered to be present above the planet’s cloud tops. “If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” BBC quoted co-author of the study Patrick Irwin.

Researchers believe that the discovery of the presence of hydrogen sulfide may help in putting together the story of how our solar system created and arranged itself some billion years ago.