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The Sky & Telescopes

VLT spots dark spot on Neptune from Earth for first time

Scientists using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile observed a dark spot on Neptune and a smaller bright point, the first such sighting from Earth.

Arjun Nair
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Scientists using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile have observed a dark spot on Neptune alongside a smaller bright point, the first such sighting from Earth.[1]