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'We were wrong' - Uranus and Neptune might not be ice giants after all

'We were wrong' - Uranus and Neptune Might Not Be "Ice Giants" After All ...
New Scientist

Leigh Fletcher interview: Why we urgently need a mission to Neptune

BEFORE heading into the depths of interstellar space, the Voyager 2 probe flew by the giant icy worlds on the edge of our solar system, giving us our first ever close-up of Uranus in 1986 and Neptune ...
Phys.org

Another explanation for K2-18b? A gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface

Artist depiction of the mini-Neptune K2-18 b. Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmstead (STScI), N. Madhusudhan. Credit: Cambridge University Exoplanet K2-18b is garnering a lot of attention. James Webb ...
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NASA's Webb Telescope Reveals First Look at Neptune's Aurora — Leading to a New Mystery

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria ...
MLive

A new 'dark vortex' just popped up on the surface of Neptune

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spied a brand-new blemish on the surface of Neptune. New images from the spacecraft reveal that a "dark vortex" has popped up in the planet's atmosphere. No, this has ...
Gizmodo

This Is the First-Ever Image of Neptune’s Auroral Glow

The Webb Space Telescope has given us our first glimpse of Neptune glowing with bright auroras, a visually stunning phenomenon that has long evaded scientists studying the ice giant. Using Webb’s near ...