The 'youngest' planet Earth is stuck with a paradoxical summer lasting 40 years

Six super telescopes have headed towards Earth's coldest and most mysterious brother and discovered very strange things are happening on this planet.

While the mystery of the strange climates on many exoplanets has been revealed, what really happens on Neptune, a planet located right in the Solar System, is still an interesting puzzle for the celestial world. Literature.

Because with a distance of 4.5 billion km, the temperature is always minus 220 degrees Celsius and darkness surrounds, it is extremely difficult to observe the 8th planet of the Solar System from Earth.

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According to Sci-News, a team led by astronomer Michael Roman from the University of Leicester (UK) and colleagues studied this unique planet using aggregated data from the Very Large Telescope ( VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, 2 Subaru, Keck and North Gemini telescopes in Hawaii - USA, Gemini South telescope in Chile.

Summer in the Southern Hemisphere of Neptune has taken place from 2005 to now and will continue until 2045. Because the Earth's youngest brother is farthest from the Sun, it has a very large orbit. A year here is as long as 165 Earth years, so a season lasts more than 4 decades.

Scientists have studied the infrared light emitted by Neptune's stratosphere, only to be shocked to realize that it is . cooling after nearly 2 decades of experiencing the so-called "summer".

Specifically, according to Science Alert, the average temperature of this planet has decreased by about 8 degrees from 2003 to the last overall measurement in 2018.

In contrast, the planet's South Pole has warmed significantly, rising by as much as 11 degrees between 2018 and 2020.

The authors still do not know the exact cause of the "cold summer" and the sudden heating of the South Pole. They suggest it could be due to complex chemical changes in the stratosphere or the atmosphere, or more random and complex weather patterns than any other planet in the Solar System.

Research will continue because Neptune has always been an attractive target for astronomers. It's cold and deadly, but NASA suspects there's an ocean beneath the planet's ice.