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Hubble Watches Neptune’s Dark Storm Die

For the first time, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. A recent Hubble program called Outer Planets Atmosphere Legacy, or OPAL, provides yearly global maps of our gas giant planets, allowing planetary scientists to view changes in formations such as Neptune’s dark storms.

  • Release Date
    February 15, 2018
  • Science Release
    Hubble Sees Neptune’s Mysterious Shrinking Storm
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    NASA's Science Visualization Studio and K. Jackson (USRA/GSFC); Music: “Struggling in the City” by Emre Ramazanoglu [PRS], Jamie Michael Bradley Reddington [PRS], and Patrick Green [PRS]; Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; BLOCK; Killer Tracks Production Music

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Last Updated
Mar 14, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov