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Neptune's rings and moons viewed in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope. Neptune has a planetary ring system, though one much less substantial than that of Saturn and Uranus. [167] The rings may consist of ice particles coated with silicates or carbon-based material, which most likely gives them a reddish hue. [168]
Astronomers have used telescope data to color-correct Voyager 2 images of Neptune and Uranus, revealing that the planets have a similar greenish blue hue.
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The Great Dark Spot in exaggerated color as seen from Voyager 2. The Great Dark Spot (also known as GDS-89, for Great Dark Spot, 1989) was one of a series of dark spots on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot. In 1989, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe.
Neptune has long been known to have white clouds circling it, but images of the furthest planet in the solar system have shown this changing over time - the most recent image, taken by the Hubble ...
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Neptune was discovered in 1846 and is located 30 times farther from the sun than Earth. The planet's 164-year orbit takes it through some of the darkest and most remote regions of the outer solar ...
The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier , telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, Autumnal Equinox of 1846, [ 1 ] at the Berlin Observatory , by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by ...