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11 April 2022

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year period. They found a surprising drop in Neptune’s global temperatures followed by a dramatic warming at its south pole.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2206/

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11 April 2022




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