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Why Neptune’s storms are intensifying

Neptune, the farthest planet from the Sun, has long been a subject of fascination for astronomers, especially due to its ...
The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...
In terms of mass, if you add up all the satellites of Neptune, Triton composes 99.5% of the mass of everything orbiting Neptune: moons, moonlets, and rings all included.
Senate Republican Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon is calling Neptune’s largest-ever property tax increase the direct result ...
Neptune in natural color from the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Credits: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Justin Cowart Why study Neptune Neptune, along with its cousin Uranus, is the least-explored planet in our solar ...
Neptune’s atmosphere is mainly comprised of three gases: hydrogen (80%), helium (19%), and methane (1%). It’s these clouds of methane gas that explain Neptune’s blue marble appearance.
This composite shows thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020. The first three images (2006, 2009, 2018) were taken with the VISIR instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope while the ...