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Sep 21, 2022 · Neptune’s 164-year orbit means its northern pole, at the top of this image, is just out of view for astronomers, but the Webb images hint at an intriguing brightness in that area.
Sep 22, 2022 · Neptune is close: just 0.05% of a light-year away from us. The star to Neptune’s lower right, whose hexagonal spike pattern arises from the shape of JWST’s mirror, is a few thousand light ...
- Ethan Siegel
Description. A quick guide to the planet Neptune, which is composed mainly of water. It has many moons and the fastest winds in the solar system. They blow up to 2000km per hour. NOTE: This clip ...
Dec 20, 2022 · JWST wide field with Neptune In this image by JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), you can see Neptune along with Triton, which appears as a bright blue object to Neptune's upper left. Triton is brighter than Neptune because its surface reflects 70% of the light that hits it. In the background you can see a smattering of hundreds of galaxies.
With a radius of 15,299.4 miles (24,622 kilometers), Neptune is about four times wider than Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Neptune would be about as big as a baseball. From an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), Neptune is 30 astronomical units away from the Sun.
Dec 30, 2013 · Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun, and it is the fourth-largest planet in the solar system. It has a diameter of 49,244 kilometers and a mass of 1.02 x 10^26 kilograms, making it about 17 times more massive than Earth. Neptune is an ice giant planet, primarily composed of water, methane, and ammonia, and has a deep ...
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The Sun is 8.3 light minutes away. [Sun enters view, in center of planets’ orbits. Blue circle marking the Sun is labeled “8.3 light minutes.”] Neptune is 4 light hours away. [All planets’ orbits in view. Blue circle marking Neptune is labeled “4 light hours.”] The more distant an object is, the longer its light takes to reach us.
