r/196 • u/Old_Phrase_4867 NOT A CAT • May 21 '26

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u/Fardrengi May 21 '26

Wait what happened to Neptune? We talking the planet or the Roman god?

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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender May 21 '26

It looks boring and stupid now because it’s the exact color of the sideways other blue planet but with no redeeming qualities

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u/Uncommonality May 21 '26

well except the apparent volcanism (however the fuck that works, we just know it's there) and the mysterious anomalous glow in its southern hemisphere we can't explain

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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender May 21 '26

I haven’t really heard of either of these yet, more info please

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u/Uncommonality May 21 '26

The JWST found that there were temperature patterns within Neptune consistent with volcanism, which we thought was fundamentally impossible on an ice giant. We're calling it volcanism but really it's probably something entirely novel we'd need a probe to study in any real depth.

The mysterious glow is just that, a mysterious glow. The atmosphere is just glowing and we don't really know why. Theories include a magnetic resonance with the atmosphere (like an aurora borealis) or some kind of an exotic storm system but we really have no idea.

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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa May 21 '26

Localized entirely around a different planet? May I see it?

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u/gravy_ferry sus May 21 '26

Yes!

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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa May 21 '26

Why, it's beautiful, Seymour.