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Topic: Neptune

$Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)$

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Planets Neptune and Uranus (Getty Images/Jason Reed)

New moons of Uranus and Neptune found

Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. (Mark Garlick)

Astronomers see post-planetary collision

Planet Neptune (Getty Images/buradaki/NASA)

Neptune's clouds are disappearing

Planet Neptune and diamonds (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Galactic forecast: Diamond rain

Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Did our solar system lose a planet?

Thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020. (ESO/M. Roman, NAOJ/Subaru/COMICS)

Neptune's seasons are broken

The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

Scientists may know how to find Planet 9

Planet Uranus (Getty Images)

The mysteries of Uranus' oceans

Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other as they race around the planet. (NASA)

Neptune's strange, "dancing" moons

(Getty/suman bhaumik)

New clues from giant storms on Neptune

Diamond Planet (NASA)

Diamonds in the sky

Keith A. Spencer

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