If you thought the planet Neptune was a deep blue color,...
Neptune, long believed to be dark blue, is actually very pale like Uranus, scientists say.They used modern telescopes to re-assess artificially enhanced images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe.We can now see how both planets would likely look to the naked eye. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while…
New JWST image reveals full glory of Neptune, its moons, and...
Enlarge / Webb captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known moons: Galatea, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Proteus, Larissa, and Triton. Neptune’s large and unusual moon, Triton, dominates this Webb portrait of Neptune as a very bright point of light sporting diffraction spikes.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Scientists are wasting no time in pointing the powerful new James Webb…
Lots of strange things about Saturn can be explained by a...
Saturn is an unusual planet in some obvious ways, most notably its extensive ring system. But it's also strange in some less obvious ways: The rings appear to be far, far younger than the planet, and they stay stably in the plane of Saturn's orbit while the planet's axis of rotation wobbles around dramatically. A…
NASA Wishes To Send Out a Low-Cost Objective to Check out...
In the coming years, NASA has some bold plans to build on the success of the New Horizons mission. Not only did this spacecraft make history by conducting the first-ever flyby of Pluto in 2015, it has since followed up on that by making the first encounter in history with a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO)…
Pleased Birthday To Urbain Le Verrier, Who Found Neptune With Mathematics...
In April of 1990, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune, snapping a series of incredible images of our Solar System's outermost planet. 150 years prior, nobody knew that our Solar System would wind up containing 8 planets, but a few scientists suspected, from the evidence of Uranus, that it might be out there.Time Life…
State Hi to Hippocamp! The New Moon Discovered at Neptune, Which...
Moons have the coolest names, don’t they? Proteus, Titan, and Callisto. Phobos, Deimos, and Encephalitis. But not Io. That’s a stupid name for a moon. There’s only two ways to pronounce it and we still get it wrong. Anyway, now we have another cool one: Hippocamp! Okay, maybe the new name isn’t that cool. It…
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…
