7 stunning images of Neptune captured by NASA
NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the ...
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
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Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
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A mission to Triton and Neptune could unlock their mysteries
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Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.
Scientists uncover a magnetic misunderstanding about Uranus
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Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
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The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.