A study reveals Neptune and Uranus are both greenish-blue, not the deep azure and pale cyan previously believed. Modern telescope data was used to correct…
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Image from simulation of ice XVIII. Oxygen ions (red) occupy a regular crystal lattice, while protons (white) diffuse like a liquid. Credit: Maurice de Koning…
Illustration of Saturn and its rings. All of the outer gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — have rings around them. Planets…
Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of Neptune, taken on July 12, 2022, brings the planet’s rings into full focus for the first time in more…
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft captured these views of Uranus (on the left) and Neptune (on the right) during its flybys of the planets in the…
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptune’s global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic…
Observed changes in Neptune’s thermal-infrared brightness, a measure of temperature in Neptune’s atmosphere. The plot shows the relative change in the thermal-infrared brightness from Neptune’s…
Image of Neptune taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probing the structures and properties of superionic ice. A layer of “hot,” electrically conductive…
A volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon Io. Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR It’s been 30 years since NASA last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new…
Uranus, taken by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2. This ice giant, which is the seventh planet from the sun in our solar system, is nearly…
Neptune and Uranus are the outermost two planets of our solar system and two gas giants. Credit: NASA Uranus and Neptune both have a completely…
[embedded content]This video is a full-globe map of the distant planet Neptune, created from Hubble Space Telescope data taken January 7-8, 2020. The movie reveals…
This is a composite picture showing images of storms on Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the Voyager 2 spacecraft (right). The Hubble…