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Neptune's Clouds Are Vanishing - Hubble Space Telescope Reveals
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14/01/2025
Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing.
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show that Neptune's
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clouds are almost completely disappearing. Astronomers report that their
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continual monitoring of Neptune's weather uncovered a link between its
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shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle in which the Sun's entangled
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magnetic fields drive solar activity. When activity on the Sun increases, more
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intense ultraviolet radiation floods the solar system. Astronomers found that two
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years after the solar cycle's peak, the number of clouds on Neptune increases.
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The link between Neptune and the Sun's activity is surprising to planetary
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astronomers because Neptune is the outermost major planet where sunlight is
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1 900th the intensity Earth receives. To monitor the evolution of Neptune's
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appearance, astronomers analyzed Hubble Space Telescope archival observations
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beginning in 1994, Keck Observatory images taken from 1994 to 2022, and Lick
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Observatory data from 2018 to 2019. The combined data will enable further
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investigations into the physics and chemistry that lead to Neptune's dynamic
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appearance, which in turn may help deepen astronomers' understanding not
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only of Neptune, but also of planets beyond our solar system.
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