Neptune sparkles like a star in a 20-minute exposure distorted by the telescope. Arrows mark the planet’s moons: little Nereid (upper right) and Triton (seemingly engulfed). Triton is the solar system’s only large satellite orbiting its parent body in the opposite direction to the planet’s rotation. This will lead to its demise when it falls into Neptune in about 10,000 million years.
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62Neptune sparkles like a star in a 20-minute exposure distorted by the telescope. Arrows mark the planet’s moons: little Nereid (upper right) and Triton (seemingly engulfed). Triton is the solar system’s only large satellite orbiting its parent body in the opposite direction to the planet’s rotation. This will lead to its demise when it falls into Neptune in about 10,000 million years. Press, 11 July 1989, Page 21
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