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Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune

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A team of astronomers proposes that methane may hold the key to controlling storms on Uranus and Neptune .

To power a storm, heat must rise from a planet's warm interior to its surface.

But the interiors of these planets are always warm, so why don't storms occur all the time? Methane usually exists as a gas, but in the upper regions of these ice world atmospheres, it may condense, forming droplets.

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