The jokes write themselves, so we’ll take the high road. Simply put: Uranus has a fart-like smell.

The journal Nature Astronomy published “Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus’s atmosphere” yesterday, a study that is best left to actual scientists to pore through. The bottom line is summarized in a statement from Patrick Irwin, the study’s lead author: “If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions.”

Horrible smell aside, the -328 degrees Fahrenheit atmosphere guarantees that none of us will ever get that close to Uranus.

Heh.