Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun. ... The dark boundary of the storm and the surrounding white cirrus clouds suggests its is moving in a counterclockwise rotation.

Astronomers have observed a mysterious large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, ... while hurricanes in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere are low-pressure systems that rotate counterclockwise.

Explore all 16 of Neptune's moons along with their names and dates of discovery. ... It orbits Neptune in the opposite direction of Neptune's rotation, known as a retrograde orbit.

Neptune lies on the outer edges of the solar system, ... This is caused by Neptune’s unique magnetic field, which is tilted by 47 degrees from the planet’s rotation axis, ...

Neptune, at some 3 billion miles from the sun, is a dark, blustery world, ... "This is because Neptune's magnetic field is seriously tilted from the planet's rotation axis ...

Neptune’s Magnetic Field is Tilted . On Earth, the magnetic field and the axis of rotation pretty nearly line up, though the magnetic pole does wander by a few hundred miles.

SEVERAL circumstances delayed my observation of the planet Neptune this autumn until November 24. On that and the two following nights the light of Neptune was compared with the light of the star ...

Neptune has a slight hint of more blue, ... In this animation, Uranus’s spin has been slowed down by over 3000 times so that the planetary rotation can be seen, ...