esahubble_opo9633b October 24th, 1996
Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison), NASA/ESA
The predominant blue colour of the planet is a result of the absorption of red and infrared light by Neptune's methane atmosphere.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9633b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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