URANUS • Planetary Alignment Provides Rare Opportunity to Study Planet 23.4.25 VIDEO: This rendering demonstrates what is happening during a stellar occultation and illustrates an example of the light curve data graph recorded by scientists that enables them to gather atmospheric measurements, like temperature and pressure, from Uranus as the amount of starlight changes when the planet eclipses the star. [NASA/Langley Research Center Advanced Concepts Laboratory] • When a planet’s orbit brings i