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TRUE-COLOUR IMAGES REVEAL THAT URANUS AND NEPTUNE ARE SIMILAR BLUES

In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our Solar System where sunlight is merely I a tepid glow, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft radioed to Earth humankind’s very first images of Neptune. The pictures revealed the Sun’s outermost planet was a stunning deep-blue orb. In contrast, Uranus – Neptune’s planetary neighbour

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