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   What is Neptune made of?

   • Neptune is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our solar system. It's more than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth is. Neptune is very similar to Uranus. It's made of a thick fog of water, ammonia, and methane over an Earth-sized solid center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane.

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   Is Neptune a gas giant?

   • Neptune, like Uranus, is an ice giant. It’s similar to a gas giant. It is made of a thick soup of water, ammonia, and methane flowing over a solid core about the size of Earth. Neptune has a thick, windy atmosphere. One day on Neptune goes by in 16 hours. Neptune has such a long journey around the Sun it takes 165 Earth years to go around once.

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   Is Neptune the farthest planet from the Sun?

   • Even though Neptune is the farthest planet from our Sun, it's a frequent stop in pop culture and fiction. The planet served as the backdrop for the 1997 science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," while in the cartoon series "Futurama," the character Robot Santa Claus has his home base on Neptune's north pole.

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   Who discovered Neptune?

   • The ice giant Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical calculations. Using predictions made by Urbain Le Verrier, Johann Galle discovered the planet in 1846. The planet is named after the Roman god of the sea, as suggested by Le Verrier. Neptune's environment is not conducive to life as we know it.

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   Why is Neptune called a planet?

   • The planet is named after the Roman god of the sea, as suggested by Le Verrier. Eyes on the Solar System lets you explore planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and the spacecraft exploring them from 1950 to 2050. Even though Neptune is the farthest planet from our Sun, it's a frequent stop in pop culture and fiction.

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   Does Neptune support life?

   • Neptune cannot support life as we know it. Pluto sometimes comes closer to the Sun than Neptune. Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun. More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye.

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2. science.nasa.gov › neptuneNeptune - NASA Science

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   Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet from the Sun. It’s the fourth largest, and the first planet discovered with math.

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     All About Neptune. Neptune is dark, cold, and very windy....

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   NEPTUNE is the world's first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet. [1] . NEPTUNE is the largest installation on the Ocean Networks Canada network of ocean observatories.

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5. www.britannica.com › place › Neptune-planetNeptune | Planet, Moons, Rings, Temperature, Mass, Diameter ...

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   3 days ago · Neptune, third most massive planet in the solar system and the eighth and outermost planet from the Sun. Neptune has 14 moons, only two of which were discovered before Voyager 2’s visit in 1989, and a system of rings, which were unconfirmed before Voyager.

   • Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846. It is the second planet to be found using a telescope. Although Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich L...
   • Neptune has 14 moons (natural satellites). Before Voyager 2's flyby of the planet, Neptune's only known moons were Triton and Nereid. Neptune's moo...
   • Neptune’s outer atmosphere is composed predominantly of hydrogen and helium, contributing to 98 percent of the atmospheric molecules. Most of the r...
   • Neptune is the only giant planet that is not visible without a telescope. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.8 and is approximately one-fifth as bri...
   • Neptune’s color is a very vivid, bright blue, presumably an effect of the presence of methane and an unidentified atmospheric gas. With a small tel...

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   Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.

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   Jun 13, 2024 · Learn about Neptune, the last and darkest planet in our solar system. Find out how it's similar to Uranus, how long it takes to orbit the sun, and what its rings and moons look like.

8. solarsystem.nasa.gov › planets › neptuneIn Depth | Neptune – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.

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   Neptune is the most distant of the solar system's eight planets. Find out about the blue world's orbit, which of Neptune's moons is the largest, and how the ...

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