![]() These include the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and Gemini South telescope in Chile together with the Subaru Telescope, Keck Telescope, and the Gemini North telescope, all in Hawai’i and spectra from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. ![]() Fry)Īn international team of researchers, including ones from the University of Leicester, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Tohoku University, and Subaru Telescope, examined all existing thermal infrared images of Neptune gathered from multiple observatories over almost two decades. (Credit: Michael Roman/NASA/ESA/STSci/M.H. ![]() In the Subaru Telescope's image, Neptune’s warm south pole glows more brightly than it has ever been seen before. The left picture shows the disk geometry in 2020, when the Neptune's Antarctic side is facing towards the Earth. The visible light image combines multiple images from the Hubble Space Telescope, while the thermal-infrared image was taken by the Subaru Telescope. ![]() Figure 1: Neptune as seen in visible light (center) and thermal-infrared (right), in 2020. ![]()
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