Supernal Rings of Neptune

The planet Neptune for god of the sea was titled from Roman mythology. His wife Salacia three sons Neptune bore with Triton most celebrated in lore both Greek and Roman as merman, then famed as the largest moon of Neptune so named. While three decades back faint rings were spotted though merely a few of those allotted, by dint of the James Webb telescope view recently captured along with bright blue of Triton that’s spied in the upper left, we gain clear look through its camera deft. Neptune is the planet eighth from the Sun, ice giant, with Triton the largest one of satellites natural going round about its dense mass although duty-bound to cruise in an orbit that’s retrograde, quite rare in the Solar System parade. One hundred sixty-five years is the span of tour in Neptune’s empyreal plan for making rotation sidereal in journey around star imperial compared to earthly year passage of time from new year to the old year’s midnight chime. In visible light Neptune blue appears as normally pictured in solar spheres but cannot be glimpsed by unaided eyes due to its distance related to size, albeit Webb’s Cam in Near-Infrared rendered it through its glass darkly instead. What further marvels that planet may grace ‘midst myriad wonders in heavens’ space awaiting disclosure for humans’ sight, if e’er their reality’s brought to light, remain to be seen provided Man can prove to be more than a ‘flash in the pan’. ~ Harley White