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An annotated picture of Neptune's many moons as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright blue diffraction star is Triton , Neptune's largest moon. Neptune has 16 known moons . [ 155 ]
The James Webb Space Telescope's first images of Neptune, the mysterious ice giant that orbits in the far reaches of the outer solar system, were so New Neptune photos offer rare views of planet ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first image of Neptune, and it's the best view of the planet's rings in over 30 years.
However, images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994 revealed that the Great Dark Spot had disappeared. [7] Also seen in Neptune's upper atmosphere was an almond-shaped spot designated D2 and a bright, quickly moving cloud high above the cloud decks dubbed "Scooter". [4] [8] Voyager 2 image of Proteus
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided an image of Neptune that shows the planet's rings — the clearest view in more than 30 years.
The Great Dark Spot (also known as GDS-89, for Great Dark Spot, 1989) was one of a series of dark spots on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot. In 1989, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe. Like Jupiter's spot, the Great Dark Spots are anticyclonic storms.
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Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this study to ...