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Here’s What Neptune Actually Looks Like Because Our Photos Have Been ‘Wrong’ All Along
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1/5/2024
Neptune is way, way out there, orbiting the Sun some 2.8 billion miles away. That’s likely why a new analysis of some old photos of the ice giant have just revealed something a bit funny: We’ve been wrong about what it looked like all along.
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Neptune is way, way out there, orbiting the sun
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some 2.8 billion miles away.
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And that's likely why a new analysis
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of some old photos of the ice giant
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have just revealed something a bit funny.
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We've been wrong about what it looked like all along.
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The new revelation stems from a simple query by astronomers.
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Why do Neptune and Uranus look so different,
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given the atmospheric situation on both planets
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is nearly identical?
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So researchers reprocessed photos
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taken from Voyager 2 back in the day
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and used new images via Hubble and the Very Large Telescope's
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multi-unit spectroscopic explorer to confirm it.
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And sure enough, Neptune appears to be a near-identical twin
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to Uranus.
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So what happened when they first processed the photos?
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Here's what planetary scientist Patrick Irwin
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had to say about that.
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Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus
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were published in a form closer to true color,
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those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced
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and therefore made artificially too blue.
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The instrumentation on Voyager 2 actually
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took photos of the two planets in different color bands,
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meaning when processed, Neptune's contrast
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was emphasized.
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This deepened its hue, producing the images we've previously
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been more familiar with.
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