But in reality, Neptune is far more of a light greenish blue. It's actually pretty similar in color to its fellow ice giant Uranus, also visited by Voyager 2. "We find that the planets are ...

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.

Neptune’s true colour is a pale greenish-blue similar to that of Uranus, contrary to popular images that show it to be a much deeper shade of blue. Mysterious dark spot on Neptune seen from ...

“There is a subtle difference in the blue shade between Uranus and Neptune, but subtle is the operative word there.” The deep blue attributed to Neptune dates back to an artificial enhancement ...

"Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to 'true' color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made artificially too blue ...

Patrick Irwin, University of Oxford. It was this processing that resulted in the darker blue color of Neptune. The planet is, in fact, lighter, according to the study’s lead author, Patrick ...

For more than 30 years, the public have believed Neptune is a brilliant shade of dark blue, quite different in colour from neighbour Uranus. But a new study debunks this by finally revealing ...

Here’s how it works. Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun but it is not the coldest. Our solar system's blue gas giant is far larger than Earth, at more than 17 times Earth's ...