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Old 13-07-2011, 05:04 PM
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Neptune 1 year old today

Well, 1 Neptunian year since discovery, anyway.

It's been 165 years since our discovery of Neptune, even though it was born around 4.5 billion years ago

Some great images of Neptune, its rings and Moons, taken by Voyager here:

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/imagesvideo/neptune.html

Some more interesting science behind it, here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...thday-neptune/

Last edited by iceman; 14-07-2011 at 08:16 AM. Reason: fix mistake
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