New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like

New images reveal what the most distant planets in the solar system – Neptune and Uranus – really look like.

Many people will think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green.

But a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually much closer in colour than typically thought.

Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford, and his team found that both planets are a similar shade of greenish blue.

Experts suggest the…