{"id":715,"date":"2003-05-27T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"seasons-for-neptune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"seasons for neptune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Neptune may have seasons, say astronomers from the  University of Wisconsin at Madison and NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion  Laboratory, after studying images of the icy, far-off planet taken by  the Hubble Space Telescope. The images &#8212; taken over a six-year period  &#8212; reveal an increase in the width and brightness of the banded cloud  features in the planet&#8217;s southern hemisphere. The increased cloud cover  is thought to be due to the sun warming the atmosphere. &#8220;This change  seems to be a response to seasonal variations in sunlight, like the  seasonal changes we see on Earth,&#8221; Lawrence Sromovsky of the University  of Wisconsin&#8217;s Space Science and Engineering Center stated in a press  release. One season on Neptune can last more than 40 years. (It takes  Neptune almost 165 years to orbit the sun.) Since the sun is 900 times  dimmer on Neptune than on Earth, what&#8217;s most remarkable, Sromovsky said,  is that Neptune has seasons at all. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 5\/27\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neptune may have seasons, say astronomers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, after studying images of the icy, far-off planet taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The images &#8212; taken over a six-year period &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}