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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and ...

Voyager 2 conducted a flyby of Uranus ... were then put together to make composites. These composite images were not always accurately balanced, particularly for the planet Neptune which was ...

The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than thirty years providing some of the most incredible images of the known ... Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, each home to a unique set of atmospheric ...

For a long time, it was unclear what auroral activity, if any, might be present on Uranus and Neptune, so far from the Sun: Uranus orbits at around 19 times the distance between the Sun and Earth ...

On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune ... Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1985, Voyager's closest approach to Neptune came on Aug. 25, 1989.

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In 1986 and 1989, Voyager 2 made the final two stops on its grand tour of the outer solar system when it swept by Uranus and Neptune, respectively. Now, nearly 40 years later, the archive of data ...