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Hugh Bollinger
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Happy Birthday, Neptune

Today is Neptune's birthday. It only gets a birthday once every 164 years, since that how long it takes to orbit the sun. That's what a birthday is, after all. Once around our big ball of fire. Neptune, one of the Solar System's gas giants has just completed its only orbit around the sun since being discovered in 1846. The Hubble Space Telescope captured these fine, new, celebratory photos of the blue-green planet: [caption id="attachment_5569" align="aligncenter" width="575" caption="Neptune collage images. Source: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Team"][/caption] Happy Birthday, Neptune! WHB
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