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11 wrz 2015 · This composite Hubble Space Telescope picture shows the location of a newly discovered moon, designated S/2004 N 1, orbiting the giant planet Neptune, nearly 4.8 billion km (3 billion miles) from...
28 lis 2008 · To find life on Neptune, the planet would need to have a source of energy that bacterial life can exploit, as well as a standing source of liquid water.
18 mar 2024 · JWST observations of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt may provide a clue to their histories and that of the ice giant planet Neptune.
21 wrz 2022 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this distant planet’s rings in more than 30 years, but its cameras reveal the ice giant in a whole new light.
21 wrz 2022 · The recently launched super space telescope James Webb has returned spectacular new imagery of Neptune. The observatory's infrared instruments highlight features not seen in such detail since the...
21 wrz 2022 · This image of the Neptune system, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), reveals stunning views of the planet’s rings, which have not been seen with this clarity in more than three decades. Webb’s new image of Neptune also captures details of the planet’s turbulent, windy atmosphere.
Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun. More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye.
