Dark,
cold and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is
the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system.
More than
30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is the only
planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye and
the first predicted by mathematics before its discovery. In
2011 Neptune completed its first 165-year orbit since its
discovery in 1846
10
Things to know
1 Giant
2 Eighth wanderer
3 Short day, Long year
4 Ice giant
5 Gassy
6 Many moons : 12 moons
7 Faint rights : 5 main rings, 4 ring arcs
8 One voyage there
9 Lifeless
10 One cool fact
Because of dwarf planet Pluto’s elliptical orbit, Pluto is
sometimes closer to the Sun (and us) than Neptune is.
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