All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
The image to the right combines all colours captured by MUSE into a “natural” view of Neptune, where a dark spot can be seen to the upper-right. Then we see images at specific wavelengths ...
similar in appearance to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, it saw a storm 13,000 kilometres across, which was subsequently named the Great Dark Spot. However, the ...
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
Whereas Earth's worst storms typically last no more than days or weeks, Neptune's newest dark vortex is expected to last years. (Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the current record-holder for longest ...