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Robert Lea

Neptune isn't as blue as you think, and these new images of the planet prove it

Neptune and Uranus colors.

The solar system ice giants Neptune and Uranus have finally revealed their true colors — thanks to images collected by Voyager 2 three decades ago that have been polished with data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT).

Neptune was previously thought to be a dark azure, while Uranus was supposedly a lighter blueish-green. However, the polished images reveal the ice giants are much closer in color to each other and are actually a lighter blue-green hue.

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