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Neptune isn't as blue as you think, and these new images of the planet prove it
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It blows my mind that we didn't know true colors of a planet in our solar system for that long.
the fact we know there are planets at all blows my mind a lil bit
like we can aim a tube with a precision crafted piece of glass to see big balls in the sky??
We did know. Somewhere along the way, the context of the pretty picture was lost.