Planet Neptune

Welcome to Planet Neptune
A website about the planet Neptune

Named after the Roman god of the sea, Neptune is a gas giant which is visable to telescopic viewing. The existence of Neptune was mathmatically predicted by Urban Le Verrier in 1846 and was discovered on September 23, 1846 by James Challis with 1° of the position predicted by Le Verrier.

Today in Astronomy History
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May 20, 1825
Astronomer, George Phillips Bond, is born. George Bond made the first photograph of a double star and discovered a number of comets.

May 20, 1990
The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photograph from space, an image of a double star 1,260 light years away.