Mysterious NEPTUNE.

From: Science World | Date: February 26, 2001| Author: CHIANG, MONA; RIST, CURTIS | Copyright information

For centuries, Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun, has been viewed--when visible at all--as the drab stepsister to other planets in our solar system. Then in 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 flew by the fuzzy nobody and sent snapshots to Earth. Those startling images forever changed the way scientists look at Neptune. Now more than a decade later, Neptune continues to excite and mystify astronomers. This giant ball of gas may even be raining diamonds!

Voyager 2 nabbed close-u...

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