A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has concluded that our popular ideas about the colors of the planets Uranus and Neptune are all wrong. Far from being two distinct shades, they are, ...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and ...

Irwin and his team color-corrected the images using data from the Hubble Space Telescope's Imaging Spectrograph and the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer on the European Southern Observatory's Very ...

OXFORD, UK — You may have seen pictures of the gas planets Uranus and Neptune depicting Uranus as having a pale greenish hue and Neptune as a deep blue, but a new study from a researcher at Oxford ...

Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Hubble ...

OXFORD, UK — You may have seen pictures of the gas planets Uranus and Neptune depicting Uranus as having a pale greenish hue and Neptune as a deep blue, but a new study from a researcher at Oxford ...

(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.

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and Uranus may have revealed why they differ in color. Credit: Directed by: Bethany ...

In 1989, the NASA Voyager team showed false color images of Neptune so that we could see the clouds in the atmosphere. NASA did also show the unaltered images at the same time in 1989. The research ...

The outermost ring of the planet Uranus turns out to have a bright blue color, according to a report in the April 7 issue of the journal Science. That makes it only the second blue ring to be found in ...

Last week at a star party I aimed my telescope at Uranus for the first time this season and was pleasantly surprised to find it next door to 44 Piscium (PYE-see-um), a star of identical brightness.