A new discovery reveals why Uranus and Neptune are different colors
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft captured these views of Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) as they flew over the planets in the 1980s. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / B. Jónsson Observations from the Gemini Observatory and other telescopes reveal that the excess fog on Uranus makes it paler than Neptune. Astronomers can now understand why the …
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