Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Humanity’s first close-up images from Neptune came 34 years ago from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The images shows bright cirrus clouds high in its atmosphere above most of its methane.

Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle Aug. 29, 2023 — Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the ...

The contrast was also strongly enhanced to bring out details in the clouds, bands and winds of the planets. In the case of Neptune, both processes made it bluer than it really was. In the recent ...

This gas, though abundant, seems to have a complex impact on the atmospheric circulation of both planets. High-altitude clouds on Neptune cast their shadows on lower ones. On Uranus and Neptune, heat ...

They said the contrast was also amped up to emphasize distinctive features like the planet's bands and clouds. This meant that Neptune has long appeared "artificially too blue," said the study's ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Switzerland gives up neutrality Martha Stewart, 83 ...