Belying its location in the deep freeze of the outer solar system, Neptune is anything but dormant. It sports giant storms and near-supersonic winds. Now, images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that this frigid ball of gas, which receives only 0.1 percent as much sunlight as Earth does, even undergoes a change of seasons.
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