Neptune
The farthest planet from the Sun, an ice giant too faint to see without binoculars or a telescope.
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What it is
- Diameter
- 49,528 km
- Distance from the Sun
- 4,515.0 million km on average
- A year there lasts
- 59,800 Earth days, about 163.7 years
- A day there, from noon to noon
- 16.1 hours
- Average temperature
- −200 °C
- Known moons
- 16, and a system of rings
Figures from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NSSDCA fact sheets. All sources