The outermost of the eight major planets of the Solar System, the ice giant Neptune pursues a distant orbit that carries it around the inner edge of the region known as the Kuiper Belt.
Use the scrollbar on the right of this window to explore the moons of Neptune, shown to scale. (Values shown are mean distances from Neptune, though note that some of the planet's outer satellites have highly eccentricorbits).
Blue Neptune is farthest major planet
from the Sun. This gas giant follows its course on
the outer fringes of the Solar System.
The cold, blue world of Neptune, outermost of the gas giants.
