News Planetary Science Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by A solar wind event just days earlier may have compressed the giant planet’s magnetosphere When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus (shown here in a false-color infrared image), the probe detected a strange magnetic environment around the planet. That may have been a fluke of timing. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Lisa Grossman 16 hours ago Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the planet, recording mysteries of its magnetic field.