Rowe-Gurney said that it was Neptune, with its “beautiful, deep-blue color,” that first sparked her interest in planetary science. But Uranus, with its funky spinning-on-its-side quality, is ...

The images taken by Voyager 2 when it passed Neptune in 1989 were originally processed to better reveal its distinctive features, but as a result they made the planet look too blue. P. Irwin ...

How to find Venus and Neptune. The best time to see this celestial match-up is after sunset on Monday, January 27, 2020, when Venus will be 0.07° south of Neptune in the constellation of Aquarius ...

However, at Neptune’s surface, the gravity is only about 1.1 times the gravity we experience on Earth. In other words, if something weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would find it weighs 110 pounds on ...

Neptune's position in the sky is plotted on this star map, along with the 1846 predicted positions of its location, and where it was eventually discovered. The blue planet resides in the ...

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.

Equally inhospitable are Neptune’s 1,200-mph winds, the strongest in our solar system. (For comparison, the strongest wind ever recorded on Earth was 301 mph during the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore ...

Neptune Characteristics . The planet Neptune orbits almost 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from the Sun and is about 30 times as far from the Sun as the Earth. Like Jupiter, Saturn, and ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, it sent back images that were processed to better reveal features like bands and a dark spot. But a new study says it's actually a greener planet.

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color. But in reality, Neptune is far more ...

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color. But in reality, Neptune is far more ...