Neptune, long believed to be dark blue, is actually very pale like Uranus, scientists say. They used modern telescopes to re-assess artificially enhanced images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe. We can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neptune, long believed to be dark blue, is actually very pale like Uranus, scientists say. They used modern telescopes to ...

Voyager 2 is unique as the only spacecraft to have approached both planets. New research has revealed that the true colors of Neptune and Uranus are surprisingly similar, challenging the previous ...

An image of Uranus on the left and Neptune on the right. They look almost indiscernible as they're both light blues. In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is ...

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...

Jan. 5 (UPI) --The true colors of Uranus and Neptune are different than what has been commonly portrayed, according to new research from the Royal Astronomical Society released Friday. The research ...

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Astronomers using three telescopes—one of them the Hubble Space Telescope—have at last solved the mystery of why Uranus and Neptune are different colors. It’s haze. Seventh planet Uranus and eighth ...

In 1989, the NASA Voyager team showed false color images of Neptune so that we could see the clouds in the atmosphere. NASA did also show the unaltered images at the same time in 1989. The research ...

A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has concluded that our popular ideas about the colors of the planets Uranus and Neptune are all wrong. Far from being two distinct shades, they are, ...

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color. But in reality, Neptune is far more of a ...