Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show that Neptune's clouds are almost completely disappearing!<br /><br />Astronomers report that their continual monitoring of Neptune’s weather uncovered a link between its shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, where the Sun’s activity waxes and wanes under the driving force of its entangled magnetic field. <br /><br />At present, the cloud coverage seen on Neptune is extremely low, with the exception of some clouds hovering over the giant planet’s south pole. A team of astronomers discovered that the abundance of clouds normally seen at the icy giant’s mid-latitudes started to fade in 2019.<br /><br />For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. <br /><br />Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center <br />Paul Morris: Lead Producer <br /><br />Music Credit:<br />“Outer Rim” by Brandon Seliga [BMI] via Emperia Beta Publishing [BMI] and Universal Production Music<br /><br />Image Credit:<br />Image of Lick Observatory, credit UC Santa Cruz<br />
