Anything to get clicks right?
Uranus IS interesting as it’s the only planet which is turned on its side relative to the spin and orbits of its sibling planets.
Just because it doesn’t have swirling clouds due to the extreme cold doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.
The fact that it is the only one that is relatively featureless makes it incredibly interesting. It's anything but boring.
If you're tired of the butt jokes or if this planet is just too mainstream for you, might I recommend another mysterious, ringed celestial body in the same general region i.e. a bajillion kilometers from nowhere?
Why not Chariklo! You almost never hear about this baby. I'd love to see a mission fly close enough to properly photograph it in my lifetime, but it's super rare to send something out that far and it would probably have to pass up on much more important science objectives in order to swing by such a tiny backwater dwarf planet. Supposedly the rings have been confirmed by stellar occultation, which is cool because it's super small for such clear rings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10199_Chariklo
I want to stand on the surface and look up for a while. See also Chiron and Haumea.
Venus is also bland in visible light. However, in ultraviolet light, Venus has interesting cloud patterns. I wonder what spectrum range Uranus shows the most? The article suggests infrared.
As far as the funny name, scientists are planning on renaming Uranus to avoid all the embarrassment. The new name will be "Urectum". (Swiped from an animated Sitcom.)
Today Wikipedia has 82 articles with Uranus in the title. Something is interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&se...
The short answer is: "because clickbait titles is part of the industry, it's not really that boring."
The longer answer it is sometimes too cold to make the same cool cloud patterns in the visual spectrum Jupiter and Saturn have.
Does that make it interesting?
I would have thought interesting weather depends on Coriolis which a sideways planet can't have.
TL;DR: Because, methane makes it look that way in visible light.
All the ads crashed my browser. How can you even read this?
Maybe your anus...
Bad pickup line or clickbait title? Asking for a friend.
${insert anus joke here}
It's a reptilian deathstar.
Because.
Because it’s Uranus, by definition?
This could be titled "Making the case for further study of Unranus". And I'm on board.
If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for AIDS? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.) A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'.
-- Andrew Marr
This is off topic but it was so distracting I had to ask: does anyone else trying to read this on mobile have this page serving up the exact same advertisement on this page for each break in the article? I refreshed and it fixed things for the most part. Two areas still have duplicated ads.
My 9th grade science teacher, Mr. Chew, told me that I would outgrow my juvenile sense of humor. I turn 40 in April. Mr. Chew, you were incorrect!