Hubble Flaunts the Environments of Uranus and Neptune
Like Earth, Uranus and Neptune have season and experience changes in weather patterns as a result. But unlike Earth, the seasons on these planets last for years rather than months, and weather patterns occur on a scale that is unimaginable by Earth standards. A good example is the storms that have been observed in Neptune…
NASA areas ‘strange dark vortex’ on Neptune
NASA/ESA/A. Simon/M.H. Wong/A. Hsu The icy, blue planets at the edge of our solar system are offering up their stormy secrets as they go through extended summer seasons. NASA's Hubble Telescope nabbed new images of the two giant planets in September and November 2018. The snaps show both planets bathed in their vivid blue hues,…
The Hubble telescope has actually found a ‘dark vortex’ raving on...
During a routine sweep of the outer solar system, the Hubble Space Telescope caught a new and mysterious "dark vortex" in the clouds of Neptune, according to NASA. The space agency jointly announced the storm's discovery on Thursday with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which picks targets for the telescope to study based on…
Strange World 9 hiding beyond Neptune may not be a world...
Artist's concept of Planet Nine. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Out past Neptune, something weird is happening to the orbits of a bunch of space rocks circling the sun. Something, scientists believed, could only be described by the presence of a giant planet -- the so-called "Planet Nine". It's baffled astronomers for years and now there's yet…
Get Your Telescopes Ready: Neptune Is Coming
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which even today remain the only mission ever to visit the planet Neptune, snapped this image with its narrow-angle camera. Even with all the technology we've developed since then, thse views remain the most accurate, high-resolution pictures ever taken of the Solar System's outermost planet. (Time Life Pictures/NASA/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty…
