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Neptune, a deep blue sphere with subtle cloud bands
Plate IX

Neptune

The most distant planet from the Sun, and the one with the fiercest winds in the entire system, with gusts exceeding 2,000 km/h. Its existence was predicted mathematically, from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus, before it was ever observed, in 1846.

Diameter49,244 km
Average distance from Sun4,495 million km
Local year164.8 Earth years
Confirmed moons16