#she's a little fuzzy but she's beautiful nonetheless <3 also i am surprised she's pearly blue?? she's gorgeous :') a win for space nerds

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Here are three side-by-side images of Neptune. From left to right, the first is labeled as taken by Voyager 2 in 1989. It’s a dark blue sphere with some pale blue or white streaks against a black background. The second is labeled as taken by Hubble in 2021. It’s a fuzzier and paler blue sphere also set against a black background. The third is labeled as taken by Webb in 2022. As seen in infrared light, Neptune resembles a pearl with thin, concentric oval rings.

Credit: Voyager: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Hubble: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team. Webb: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI