Telescopes of all varieties gather information from the electromagnetic spectrum to make their images. Some of that light is visible, the stuff we can see with our eyes, and some of it isn’t. X-rays, ...

Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost planets, and you may picture two distinct hues: pale turquoise and cobalt blue. But astronomers say that the true colors of these distant ice ...

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An image of Uranus on the left and Neptune on the right. They look almost indiscernible as they're both light blues. In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is ...

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 of a ...

(CNN) - The true colors of Uranus and Neptune may be more similar than previously thought. A team at the University of Oxford used two different telescopes including the Hubble to capture new data.

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of... Don't look so blue, Neptune: Now astronomers know ...