"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

Clocking Neptune's spin By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA ... This is the planet Neptune as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. view more . Credit: NASA.

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Like spinning gelatin, the gas giants – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – don’t behave in an easy to study manner. By nature they deform as they rotate, making accurate estimates ...

Not long after Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846, scientists have managed to calculate the exact length of one day on the distant gas giant planet.

Not long after Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846, scientists have managed to calculate the exact length of one day on the distant gas giant planet.

A video of the Neptune spinning conveys the sheer speed at which the giant planet rotates. Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in July, shortly before the discovery.

Tellingly, Uranus today does not have a big satellite, unlike Neptune, which has Triton, Saturn, which has Titan, and Jupiter, which has Ganymede and others. Fossilized spin That’s an ...

A video of the Neptune spinning conveys the sheer speed at which the giant planet rotates. Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in July, shortly before the discovery.