Hubble sees Neptune's mysterious shrinking storm
Feb 17, 2018, at 12:46 am
Washington, Feb 16 (IBNS): Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Twilight observations reveal huge storm on Neptune
Aug 05, 2017, at 02:36 am
New York, Aug 4 (IBNS): Spectacular sunsets and sunrises are enough to dazzle most of us, but to astronomers, dusk and dawn are a waste of good observing time. They want a truly dark sky.
NASA study finds unexpectedly primitive atmosphere around ‘Warm Neptune’
May 13, 2017, at 12:18 am
Washington, May 12 (IBNS): A study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.