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Comment by onetimeuse92304

No, not really. "aligned" would suggest some kind of connection. It is very likely a complete accident. Literally.

It most likely that at some point Uranus was hit by a planet and the collision changed the spin axis. Must have been pretty early for everything else to be aligned with the new axis.

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