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  1. 2026-07-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-18)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,396,025,500.67 km (-15,954,140.87 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.39 (-0.11)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 4 min 23.56 s (-53.22 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (-0.00 km/s)

    Image: Post-encounter View of Neptune South Pole
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  2. 2026-07-25 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-18)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,396,025,500.67 km (-15,954,140.87 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.39 (-0.11)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 4 min 23.56 s (-53.22 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (-0.00 km/s)

    Image: Post-encounter View of Neptune South Pole
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  3. The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our solar system — a world larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, a size our own neighbourhood entirely skipped, now counted in the thousands across NASA’s confirmed exoplanet archive
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>The strangest thing about our solar system may be what it is missing
    #neptune #planet #system #earth

  4. 2026-07-18 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-11)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,411,979,641.54 km (-16,733,054.49 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.49 (-0.11)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 5 min 16.78 s (-55.82 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (-0.00 km/s)

    Image: Neptune on Triton Horizon
    Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  5. 2026-07-18 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-11)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,411,979,641.54 km (-16,733,054.49 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.49 (-0.11)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 5 min 16.78 s (-55.82 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (-0.00 km/s)

    Image: Neptune on Triton Horizon
    Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  6. The most common type of planet discovered in the Milky Way may be a world that does not exist in our solar system — larger than Earth, smaller than Neptune, and wrapped in an atmosphere we barely understand
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>The Solar System gives us a familiar catalogue of planets
    #neptune #planet #system #common

  7. An ancient moonpocalypse may explain #Neptune’s odd #moon #Nereid
    The strange satellite was born in a steady, circular orbit around Neptune, then tossed into its elongated orbit during a chaotic encounter with a #Pluto-sized body that ejected or pulverized all its sibling #moons. This idea counters assumption that Nereid formed in #KuiperBelt, the cold reservoir of #space rocks in outer #solarsystem, and was pitched into its present orbit later.
    sciencenews.org/article/neptun
    archive.ph/3RUYD

  8. An ancient moonpocalypse may explain #Neptune’s odd #moon #Nereid
    The strange satellite was born in a steady, circular orbit around Neptune, then tossed into its elongated orbit during a chaotic encounter with a #Pluto-sized body that ejected or pulverized all its sibling #moons. This idea counters assumption that Nereid formed in #KuiperBelt, the cold reservoir of #space rocks in outer #solarsystem, and was pitched into its present orbit later.
    sciencenews.org/article/neptun
    archive.ph/3RUYD

  9. An ancient moonpocalypse may explain #Neptune’s odd #moon #Nereid
    The strange satellite was born in a steady, circular orbit around Neptune, then tossed into its elongated orbit during a chaotic encounter with a #Pluto-sized body that ejected or pulverized all its sibling #moons. This idea counters assumption that Nereid formed in #KuiperBelt, the cold reservoir of #space rocks in outer #solarsystem, and was pitched into its present orbit later.
    sciencenews.org/article/neptun
    archive.ph/3RUYD

  10. An ancient moonpocalypse may explain ’s odd
    The strange satellite was born in a steady, circular orbit around Neptune, then tossed into its elongated orbit during a chaotic encounter with a -sized body that ejected or pulverized all its sibling . This idea counters assumption that Nereid formed in , the cold reservoir of rocks in outer , and was pitched into its present orbit later.
    sciencenews.org/article/neptun
    archive.ph/3RUYD

  11. An ancient moonpocalypse may explain #Neptune’s odd #moon #Nereid
    The strange satellite was born in a steady, circular orbit around Neptune, then tossed into its elongated orbit during a chaotic encounter with a #Pluto-sized body that ejected or pulverized all its sibling #moons. This idea counters assumption that Nereid formed in #KuiperBelt, the cold reservoir of #space rocks in outer #solarsystem, and was pitched into its present orbit later.
    sciencenews.org/article/neptun
    archive.ph/3RUYD

  12. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  13. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  14. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  15. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  16. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  17. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  18. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  19. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  20. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  21. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  22. 2026-07-11 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-04)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,428,712,696.03 km (-17,262,876.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.60 (-0.12)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 6 min 12.60 s (-57.58 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: ARC-1989-AC89-7036
    Credit: JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  23. 2026-07-11 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-04)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,428,712,696.03 km (-17,262,876.14 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.60 (-0.12)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 6 min 12.60 s (-57.58 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: ARC-1989-AC89-7036
    Credit: JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  24. #Uranus and #Neptune should be more than 60% rock. For decades, elementary students learned the same tale of the #SolarSystem: first come rocky terrestrial planets such as #Earth, followed by gas giants such as #Jupiter and #ice giants such as Neptune. “We really don’t know what these #planets 🪐 are made of.” science.org/content/article/ur

    #Astronomy

  25. #Uranus and #Neptune should be more than 60% rock. For decades, elementary students learned the same tale of the #SolarSystem: first come rocky terrestrial planets such as #Earth, followed by gas giants such as #Jupiter and #ice giants such as Neptune. “We really don’t know what these #planets 🪐 are made of.” science.org/content/article/ur

    #Astronomy

  26. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  27. Witness Neptune’s deep blue emerge from the void through the lens of Voyager 2 — humanity’s only close-up look at the eighth planet, captured in 1989 as the spacecraft raced past on its way to interstellar space. 🔵🚀

    #space #neptune #voyager2 #nasa #astronomy #universe #cosmos #solarsystem

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  28. 2026-07-04 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-27)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,445,975,289.57 km (-17,549,042.40 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.72 (-0.12)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 7 min 10.18 s (-58.54 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Neptune Rings
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  29. 2026-07-04 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-27)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,445,975,289.57 km (-17,549,042.40 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.72 (-0.12)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 7 min 10.18 s (-58.54 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Neptune Rings
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  30. Neptune Clouds Showing Vertical Relief

    NASA's Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, provides obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks. These clouds were observed at a latitude of 29 degrees north near Neptune's east terminator. The linear cloud forms are stretched approximately along lines of constant...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #neptune #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  31. Neptune Clouds Showing Vertical Relief

    NASA's Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, provides obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks. These clouds were observed at a latitude of 29 degrees north near Neptune's east terminator. The linear cloud forms are stretched approximately along lines of constant...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #neptune #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  32. USN P-8 Neptune departs Travis AFB April 2026. This one is interesting. The BuNo number is 166431, YB which is VP-8 "Fighting Tigers" NAS Jacksonville and its stenciled for NAV AIR which is also PMA-290 #TravisAFB #cvvhrn #aviation #AvGeek #photography #P8 #neptune #NAVAIR

  33. USN P-8 Neptune departs Travis AFB April 2026. This one is interesting. The BuNo number is 166431, YB which is VP-8 "Fighting Tigers" NAS Jacksonville and its stenciled for NAV AIR which is also PMA-290 #TravisAFB #cvvhrn #aviation #AvGeek #photography #P8 #neptune #NAVAIR

  34. USN P-8 Neptune departs Travis AFB April 2026. This one is interesting. The BuNo number is 166431, YB which is VP-8 "Fighting Tigers" NAS Jacksonville and its stenciled for NAV AIR which is also PMA-290 #TravisAFB #cvvhrn #aviation #AvGeek #photography #P8 #neptune #NAVAIR

  35. USN P-8 Neptune departs Travis AFB April 2026. This one is interesting. The BuNo number is 166431, YB which is VP-8 "Fighting Tigers" NAS Jacksonville and its stenciled for NAV AIR which is also PMA-290 #TravisAFB #cvvhrn #aviation #AvGeek #photography #P8 #neptune #NAVAIR

  36. USN P-8 Neptune departs Travis AFB April 2026. This one is interesting. The BuNo number is 166431, YB which is VP-8 "Fighting Tigers" NAS Jacksonville and its stenciled for NAV AIR which is also PMA-290 #TravisAFB #cvvhrn #aviation #AvGeek #photography #P8 #neptune #NAVAIR

  37. 2026-06-27 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-20)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,463,524,331.97 km (-17,606,963.82 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.84 (-0.12)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 8 min 8.71 s (-58.73 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Neptune - Closest Approach
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

  38. 2026-06-27 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-20)

    NEPTUNE
    - Distance (km): 4,463,524,331.97 km (-17,606,963.82 km)
    - Distance (AU): 29.84 (-0.12)
    - Light travel time: 4 h 8 min 8.71 s (-58.73 s)
    - Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (+0.00 km/s)

    Image: Neptune - Closest Approach
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #Neptune #Space #SolarSystem