Introduction. Dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.

Neptune orbits our Sun, a star, and is the eighth planet from the Sun at a distance of about 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers).

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This image of Neptune's irregularly-shaped satellite Proteus (1989 N1) taken by Voyager 2 shows a resolution of 8 km (5 miles) per pixel. It was taken at a range of 870,000 km (540,000 miles).

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