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English: Diagram of the planet Neptune. Upper atmosphere, top clouds. Atmosphere consisting of hydrogen, helium, and methane gas. Mantle consisting of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Core consisting of rock (silicates and nickel-iron).
Neptune's atmosphere is faintly blue in the optical spectrum, only slightly more saturated than the blue of Uranus's atmosphere. Early renderings of the two planets greatly exaggerated Neptune's colour contrast "to better reveal the clouds, bands and winds", making it seem deep blue compared to Uranus's off-white.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Neptune: . Neptune – eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet.
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The James Webb Space Telescope's first images of Neptune, the mysterious ice giant that orbits in the far reaches of the outer solar system, were so New Neptune photos offer rare views of planet ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Neptune co-orbital minor planets (1 C, 3 P) R. Resonant trans-Neptunian objects (25 C, 5 P)
A total of five planets are going retrograde between May and September: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. "Retrograde" is a term used to describe when a planet's orbit appears to slow.
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