Neptune: Quick Facts

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Argon on Uranus and Neptune may reveal more about their origins than their interiors • Nov. 11, 2026, 12:20 PM ET (Phys.org)

Uranus has a weird magnetic field that's stumped scientists for 40 years — we may finally know why • Nov. 10, 2026, 2:00 PM ET (Space)

Backward world? Rubin finds a retrograde object past Neptune • Nov. 8, 2026, 7:07 AM ET (EarthSky)

Scientists Crushed Water Between Two Diamonds And Saw Something Never Observed in a Lab Before. • Nov. 4, 2026, 6:02 PM ET (ScienceAlert)

NASA's Hubble and Webb discover ancient worlds that remember their past • Nov. 1, 2026, 2:00 AM ET (Science Daily)

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Clouds in Neptune's atmosphere

Neptune's Great Dark Spot

Neptune's Great Dark Spot

Neptune's clouds

Moons of Neptune: Triton

Neptune's ring system

moons of Uranus: Ariel

Neptune: atmospheric changes

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M101 (NGC 5457, The Pinwheel Galaxy). Hubble Space Telescope image of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). Largest most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has ever been released from Hubble. Created from 1994-2003

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Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11. Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin, photographed July 20, 1969, during the first manned mission to the Moon's surface. Reflected in Aldrin's faceplate is the Lunar Module and astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took the picture.

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1 July 2002: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite reveals a massive solar eruption more than 30 times the Earth's diameter. The eruption formed when a loop of a magnetic field over the surface of the Sun trapped hot gas.

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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.

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This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars -- what's called a circumbinary planet. The planet, which can be seen in the foreground, was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The two orbiting stars r

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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).

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