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Studies on Neptune Challenge Assumptions About Its Composition and Moons

2026-07-06 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Top Comments (10)

@jackvos8047 2026-07-06

It's crazy that a foot note clearly stating that the picture of Neptune was a false colour image was forgotten about and people began to believe that Neptune really was that colour.

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@yankee1376 2026-07-07

Since they both lack Jupiter's dangerous, super charged radiation belts they could be classified as Nice Giants

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@johnburnside7828 2026-07-06

Back in the 1960s Neptune and Uranus were presented as basically the same color.

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@smiller-i9x 2026-07-07

How do you manage to work this hard? You are a very wonderful person Anton.

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@rebeuhsin6410 2026-07-08

Scientists always know the new Neptune is pale blue green. When the Voyager 2 team released the famous deep-blue images in 1989, they explicitly included captions explaining that the colors were artificially saturated and enhanced to emphasize atmospheric details like cloud bands and the Great Dark Spot.

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@Alondro77 2026-07-06

This means that Uranus and Neptune ARE the missing Super Earths! Just formed too far away from the Sun and too cold to lose their hydrogen envelope.

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@TonerLow 2026-07-07

I've always thought that Uranus' and Neptune's blues were pretty hard to tell apart in my 8" dobsonian. Unfortunately neither one are much to look at from Earth, but you can see the spherical shape of them, and it's always nice to see a neighbor anyway.

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@gaiusjulius4 2026-07-07

There was an educational video game from the 90s called Operation Neptune where it was depicted as a water world and you had to solve math equations to keep your submarine from sinking. It was quite fun and I think we need to bring back games like that and incorporate all our new discoveries!

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@8BitNaptime 2026-07-07

They misheard: it's a nice giant

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@timothyyambing6160 2026-07-07

When I'm a retired person at 2040, I'll still continue listening to your updates, and will look forward to the Neptunian Odyssey.

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