Images of Neptune

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Neptune
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"Coincidentally, two new images of Neptune were posted today, from two very different sources."

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Planetary Society Weblog Download time: Sep 7 2010 8:54 AM ET

Coincidentally, two new images of Neptune were posted today, from two very different sources. One came from Earth. It was from the Hubble Space Telescope, our most impressive eye on objects in the sky, in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths anyway. Although Hubble has great eyesight, Neptune is very far away from Earth -- never closer than 29 astronomical units -- so it's a relatively small ball in Hubble photos. Still, the photo is detailed enough to reveal some cloud features.…