Is there a blue planet?

Neptune: The Blue Planet | NASA.
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Are any of the planets blue?

The atmospheres of the two ice giants in our solar system, Neptune and Uranus, are both beautiful shades of blue.
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Which planet is known as a blue planet?

Neptune, the other blue planet, is the eighth planet in our solar system.
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Is there a purple planet?

A comparison of the Kepler planets as compared to Earth, Jupiter, and previous Kepler finds. Kepler-11e is in purple at the bottom.
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What is the closest blue planet to Earth?

Have You Ever Seen The 'Other' Blue Planet? Earth And Neptune Are Closest Together This Week
  • Illustration of Neptune, eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. ( ...
  • The best way to Neptune is to find the time local to you when it is the highest in the southern sky. ...
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The Blue Planet Collection | Part 1 | BBC Earth



Is there a red planet?

Mars is sometimes called the Red Planet. It's red because of rusty iron in the ground. Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons, and weather. It has a very thin atmosphere made of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and argon.
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Is there an orange planet?

Mars is a rust-orange color. (We know, it's called the Red Planet—what can we say? It's orange.) Jupiter is a light tan color and Saturn is a yellow-ish tan color.
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Which planet is the dead planet?

Mercury is a dead planet and the most heavily cratered object in the solar system. It is a world of black starry skies, gray craters, no moon and not enough gravity to hold an atmosphere. Without an atmosphere, Mercury is a silent world without any sound.
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Are there any pink planets?

It's a magenta-colored planet! Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive.
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Is there a green planet?

Which planet is also called as 'the green planet'? Notes: Uranus is four times the size of the Earth. It appears greenish in color because of the large amount of methane gas present in its atmosphere.
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Is Venus red or blue?

Some of the most famous images of Venus make the second planet from the Sun appear blue. However, we know that Venus actually appears mainly yellow-white to the naked eye. This blue tinting observed in some photos is as a result of the filters the cameras have used to take the image.
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Is Uranus a blue planet?

Kid-Friendly Uranus

Uranus is made of water, methane, and ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium like Jupiter and Saturn, but it also has methane. The methane makes Uranus blue.
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Is Neptune blue planet?

Neptune: The Blue Planet | NASA.
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What color is Venus?

Viewed through a telescope, Venus presents a brilliant yellow-white, essentially featureless face to the observer. Its obscured appearance results from the surface of the planet being hidden from sight by a continuous and permanent cover of clouds. Features in the clouds are difficult to see in visible light.
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What color Is Uranus?

Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas in the atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and is reflected back out by Uranus' cloud tops. Methane gas absorbs the red portion of the light, resulting in a blue-green color.
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What Colour is Pluto?

Pluto's visual apparent magnitude averages 15.1, brightening to 13.65 at perihelion. In other words, the planet has a range of colors, including pale sections of off-white and light blue, to streaks of yellow and subtle orange, to large patches of deep red.
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Is there a rainbow planet?

Currently, there is no other planet known to have liquid water on its surface or in sufficient quantities in the atmosphere to make rain. The ingredients required to make a rainbow are sunlight and raindrops.
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What planet rains diamonds?

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds—or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however. Only a single space mission, Voyager 2, has flown by to reveal some of their secrets, so diamond rain has remained only a hypothesis.
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What is a cotton candy planet?

Now researchers have found that this masive exoplanet, which is known as one of the 'super-puff' or 'cotton-candy' planets, has a core mass that is far lower than thought. Scientists are intrigued by WASP-107b, which has managed to create a huge gas envelope like Jupiter and Saturn without the dense core.
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When did Mars dry up?

Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over the planet. But about three billion years ago, they all dried up—and no one knows why.
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What does Pluto smell like?

But if you were to somehow concentrate the chemicals of Pluto's atmosphere, then you would smell, surprise here, nothing, because methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide present Pluto are smell-less [[9]].
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Can the Sun explode?

No supernova, no black hole

Our sun isn't massive enough to trigger a stellar explosion, called a supernova, when it dies, and it will never become a black hole either. In order to create a supernova, a star needs about 10 times the mass of our sun.
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Which planet is white?

The planets of the solar system are varied in their appearance. Mercury is slate gray while Venus is pearly white, Earth a vibrant blue, and Mars a dusky red.
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What color is Moon?

But despite this first-glance appearance, the moon isn't exactly yellow nor bright white. It's more of a dark grey, mixed in with some white, black, and even a bit of orange — and all this is caused by its geology.
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What color is the Sun in space?

If you are lucky enough to make it to the International Space Station one day, you can see the actual white color of the sun because it is not distorted by our atmosphere. From space, the sun will appear like a huge white glowing sphere.
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