Neptune Is Cooling Down and Scientists Don’t Know Why
Space.com | Tereza PultarovaTwo decades worth of observations revealed unexpected cooling of the solar system’s most distant planet, Neptune, amid its astronomical summer.
Neptune is orbiting 30 times farther away from the sun than Earth with one year lasting 165 Earth years. The ice giant’s seasons, too, last much longer than those on Earth ― more than 40 Earth-years each.
As the planet moved into its southern summer over the past two decades, astronomers observed its average global temperatures plummet by a staggering 14 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius).
The observed cooling, however, wasn’t uniform, the researchers said in the statement.
Measurements of Neptune’s stratosphere, the second lowest layer of the planet’s atmosphere, revealed a warming trend above Neptune’s south pole. This data set, which only contained data from a two-year period between 2018 and 2020, revealed a speedy warming of about 20 degrees F (11 degrees C). The scientists said that such polar warming has never been observed on Neptune before.
Straight Line of the Day: Why is Neptune cooling down?
Due to astronomical positioning, Uranus is out of view so Neptune is no longer turned on.
Universal Climate Change
…since transgendering its no longer turned on by the rings around Uranus.
Simply because Tereza Pultarova said so.
An anagram of “Tereza Pultarova” is:
and:
Tut. A zeal; a prover.
Zeal up. A Rat voter.
Al Gore wrote a book about warming occurring on Neptune.
Gru and the minions are testing out a new freeze gun.
The IPCC hasn’t gotten around to fixing the data yet…
Venus hogging all the blankets.
Biden now in charge of the dilithium crystal supply chain.
Getting cold feet since Pluto got demoted.
Saw Hillary nekkid.
SHRINKAGE!
…it got some new Ray-Bans
Fear of Greta.
How Dare you rob us of our shilled-hood?
NASA doctoring the data again
Neptunians are trading carbon credits for bitcoins
Neptune’s been using that new fangled mentholated powder!
Just now recovering from getting hot under the collar when her little buddy, Pluto, was evicted.
There is no possible explanation. There is absolutely no margin of error involved in (indirectly) measuring a 14-degree change between moving planets over two decades of varying solar activity at distances ranging between 2.7 to 2.9 billion miles, with our complete knowledge of all possible effects in the intervening space and within our atmosphere and, for that matter, our instruments.
Plus, we can apparently home in on the second lowest layer of Naptune’s atmosphere over just its south polar region . . . so we’ve got that going for us.
NEPTUNE CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER!
Someone alert Biden’s new Minister of Truth!
Clearly, it’s the wind from Uranus.
I would think that would warm the planet
IMAO has extra-terrestrial readers!!
Neptune is not funky, nor Medina.
Neptune getting cold? There may be Nereid explanations.
Kirk: “Neptune’s, getting, colder. Theories, gentlemen?”
McCoy: “I’m a doctor, not . . .”
Kirk: “Spock?”
Spock:
Hitchhiker’s Guide entry for Neptune: “Mostly Warmless.”
It logged off social media
They mean to take Wimbleton.
… Entropy…
I don’t know but it’s probably Trump’s fault
Why is Neptune cooling down?
It’s wife is out of town so it can set the thermostat to a reasonable temperature.
How dare you assume a planet’s gender?
Why is Neptune cooling down?
No one has seen the Yak for a while.
Just saying…
Why is Neptune cooling down?
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Why is Neptune cooling down?
Why not?
I don’t know but lets send John Kerry there to figure it out.
Extra helping ~~~
That would just make it colder.
And that would be a problem because…?
It’s the Gore Effect.
Found Namor’s Speedo in Aquaman’s back seat.
Started smoking to impress Venus.
Why is Neptune cooling down? Because the Neptunians got rid of all their fossil fuel using power plants, automobiles and trucks.
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Forget it Oppo, it’s zzyzx.
Probably because I edited it almost as soon as I posted it. Either that or your algorithm should be working for pre-Elon Musk Twitter.
The little green men in their UFO’s found that their exhaust was warming Earth too much..so they’re bugging out and going to Neptune next..
NEPTUNE isn t really cooling and EARTH isn’t warming..they just keep shoving the thermometer in the wrong holes…