Hubble Watches Neptune's Dark Storm Die

  • Released Thursday, February 15, 2018
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For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. A recent Hubble program called Outer Planets Atmosphere Legacy, or OPAL, provides yearly global maps of our gas giant planets, allowing planetary scientists to view changes in formations such as Neptune's dark storms.

Read the full story on NASA.gov.
View the full image release at HubbleSite.org.
Find the science paper here.

Additional resources:
Neptune imagery - JPL Photojournal
Voyager b-roll - NASA Image and Video Library
OPAL information and data - OPAL website
Voyager information - voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Music credit: "Struggling in the City" by Emre Ramazanoglu [PRS], Jamie Michael Bradley Reddington [PRS], and Patrick Green [PRS]; Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; BLOCK; Killer Tracks Production Music

Time-lapse sequence

Hubble's observations of Neptune's shrinking dark storm. Left inset is a monochromatic image of just the blue filter, and right inset is a color image combining the blue, green, and red filters.

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This page was originally published on Thursday, February 15, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.

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