"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.

Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.

Uranus appeared to be a pale cyan color, while Neptune was depicted as a striking deep blue. Voyager 2 captured images of each planet in separate colors, and the single-color images were combined ...

The images of Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, and Neptune, the eighth planet, were collected in 1986 and 1989, respectively, as NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft headed out of the solar system.

In addition, the early Neptune images from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds that shape our modern perspective of Neptune. Professor Irwin ...

Webb showed Jupiter at its best in a series of fresh photos released last ... and galaxies were forming. NASA's Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to see Neptune in all its gaseous glory, during ...

They then applied that data to the original Voyager 2 images. The corrected images show that Neptune and Uranus have a similar greenish-blue hue. Over 30 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew ...

Moons of Neptune: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known moons: Galatea, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Proteus, Larissa, and Triton. The planet's large and ...

21, 2022, shows three side-by-side images of Neptune. From left, a photo of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1989, Hubble in 2021, and the James Webb telescope in 2022. In visible light, Neptune ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the dazzling auroras of Jupiter, shining hundreds of times brighter ...

A unique view: These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA Voyager 2 on April 26,1989. The picture on the top was taken five hours after that at bottom, during which time the planet rotated ...