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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 system's 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
Neptune's 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