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Neptune


Neptune is the eighth, and most distant planet from the Sun. It’s the fourth-largest, and the first planet discovered with math.

Neptune Facts

Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun.

More than 30 times as far from the Sun as is Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. Neptune was the first planet located using math.

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Neptune is blue and banded with clouds and storms.
This picture of Neptune was produced from images taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 in the summer of 1989. It was the first spacecraft to fly by the planet.
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