New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew ...

Early images of Neptune from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast-enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds that shape what we have come to think the planet looks like, scientists say.

New Neptune photos offer rare views of planet’s rings. The James Webb Space Telescope’s images of the mysterious ice giant brought humanity a first infrared look at the rings.

A new treatment of images collected by Voyager 2 in the late 1980s using data from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the actual colors of the solar system's distant ice giants, Neptune and ...

This composite image provided by NASA on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, shows three side-by-side images of Neptune: photo taken by Voyager 2 in 1989, Hubble in 2021, and Webb in 2022.

For the first time in history, we now have real, high-resolution images of Neptune that go beyond artist impressions and telescope visuals. Captured by advanced space telescopes and spacecraft ...

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color. But in reality, Neptune is far more ...

University of Oxford. (2024, January 4). New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 01 ...

New images reveal what the most distant planets in the solar system – Neptune and Uranus – really look like. Many people will think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green.