The image to the right combines all colours captured by MUSE into a “natural” view of Neptune, where a dark spot can be seen to the upper-right. Then we see images at specific wavelengths ...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new ...
Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time Aug. 24, 2023 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere ...
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.
When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...
Although it is possible to spot Uranus without binoculars or a telescope in a dark, transparent sky, that’s not true for Neptune. While you’re out looking you’ll much more easily be able to ...
By contrast, the planet Neptune has dark spots that can drift widely in latitude without strong jet streams holding them in place. Jupiter’s GRS has been at a southern latitude, trapped between ...
similar in appearance to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, it saw a storm 13,000 kilometres across, which was subsequently named the Great Dark Spot. However, the ...
You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.
On this day in 1846, Neptune is observed by the Berlin Observatory by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d’Arrest), working from calculations of Urbain Le Verrier.