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New images of Neptune and Uranus have revealed that theyre actually more similar in colour than you might think.

Analysis shows that our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong.

Neptune has long been pictured as a deep, rich blue. Researchers reprocessed NASA images to show its true hue.

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

New study corrects misconceptions about Uranus and Neptunes colors, revealing they are both greenish-blue.

A new treatment of images collected by Voyager 2 in the late 1980s using data from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the actual colors of the solar systems distant ice giants, Neptune and Uranus.

Astronomers have used telescope data to color-correct Voyager 2 images of Neptune and Uranus, revealing that the planets have a similar greenish blue hue.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Often appearing in images to have starkly different hues, the true colors of Neptune and Uranus may be more

Neptunes colors in the original pictures were "made artificially too blue," astronomer Patrick Irwin said.

Both countries are actually a similar shade of pale, greenish blue, new research suggests