The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune, its rings and moons. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 ...

New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope has released stunning new images of Neptune and its rings, as well as seven of the planet's 14 known moons. Researchers say it's the clearest view of ...

Exploiting once-secret Star Wars technology to pierce Earth's turbulent atmosphere, California astronomers have taken startling new pictures of the planet Neptune through the giant eye of the Keck ...

Science | November 5, 2024. The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune. Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground ...

The images of Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, and Neptune, the eighth planet, were collected in 1986 and 1989, respectively, as NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft headed out of the solar system.

Astronomers have used telescope data to color-correct Voyager 2 images of Neptune and Uranus, revealing that the planets have a similar greenish blue hue.

"Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made artificially too ...

Early images of Neptune from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds that shape what we have come to think the planet looks like, scientists say.