Neptune
ice giant · outermost planet
29 AU from Earth
The windiest world known: storms race at 2,000 km/h around a deep-blue methane atmosphere. It takes 165 years to orbit the Sun once.
- radius 24,620 km · 30 AU from the Sun
- found in 1846 by mathematics before telescopes
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
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- place in the Solar System
- distance
- 29.9 AU from the Sun
- size
- 49,200 km across
- orbits
- the Sun
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