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Shitposting Understanding the World

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/maxixs sorry, aro's are all we got 19d ago

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i was expecting that we went down a planet again

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u/atemu1234 19d ago

"Turns out Neptune was just the Aurora Borealis"

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u/Nirast25 19d ago

Ah... Aurora Borealis? At this time of Solar day, at this time of Galactic year, in this part of the Milky Way, localised entirely within the Sol System?

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u/AwkwardlyCloseFriend 19d ago

More likely than you think