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What They Didn_t Teach You In School About Neptune

Close your eyes and journey to the most distant planet in our solar system, a world of supersonic winds and hidden secrets that your textbooks never revealed. A story of a planet that was found with math, not a telescope. Neptune's existence was predicted by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier in 1846 before it was ever seen, and astronomers found it within one degree of his calculation the very first night. It is a world of the wildest storms in the solar system, where winds reach 2,100 km/h, nine times stronger than Earth's most powerful gales. And its greatest mystery? Unlike its twin…

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