The distant planet will be in the constellation Pisces and will be visible for most of the night.
Even though the distant ice giant is at perigee, its closest point to Earth, Earth and Neptune will still be anything but close in real terms. During this closest approach on Tuesday, Neptune will still be around 2.7 billion miles from our planet. are separated by an average of 140 million miles . This means that the average distance between Mars and Earth would fit between Earth and Neptune almost 20 times over. , Neptune is around 30 times further away at around 2.
The distance between Neptune and the sun means that the ice giant takes 165 Earth years to orbit the sun.The distance between Earth and Neptune means that the blue marble-like world isn't visible in the sky over Earth with the naked eye.
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