Never Stop Wondering!

I'm with Neptune.....this is for all the folks that stargaze, moon watch, and take time to just wonder what's out there beyond our lonely planet we call Earth. @mikegifford

View on black for the best impact!

Some things to know about Neptune:
If the sun were as tall as a typical front door, the Earth would be the size of a nickel and Neptune would be about as big as a baseball.

Neptune orbits our sun, a star. Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun at a distance of about 4.5 billion km (2.8 billion miles) or 30.07 AU.

One day on Neptune takes about 16 hours (the time it takes for Neptune to rotate or spin once). Neptune makes a complete orbit around the sun (a year in Neptunian time) in about 165 Earth years (60,190 Earth days).

Neptune is a sister ice giant to Uranus. Neptune is mostly made of a very thick, very hot combination of water (H2O), ammonia (NH3), and methane (CH4) over a possible heavier, approximately Earth-sized, solid core.

Neptune's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen (H2), helium (He) and methane (CH4).

Neptune has 13 moons. Neptune's moons are named after various sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology.

Neptune has six rings.

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune.

Neptune cannot support life as we know it.

[Dyan Stevens]

Splendid - the stars really do come out when viewed on black.

[Domenico Dodaro]

Amazing composite, Mike (I assume is a composite as Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Neptune ;-p ) Brilliant use of the light effect!

[Mike Gifford]

@domenicododaro pssst...don't tell anyone, but I took this picture of Neptune while viewing out of my ship's portal on route to Pluto! Keep it a secret okay.....just between the two of us.

[Margo Sayer]

Super shot, great fun...and prompted me to read the wonderful obituary of Patrick Moore.

[summerfield]

oh, was that you i saw passing by as i was doing a photoshoot? i thought i recognized the rocket ship! :-P

[Caroline]

@domenicododaro @summerfield @mikegifford you are all crazy haha!!! Fantastic image Mr Mike... very intense - and dramatic on black.

[Mike Gifford]

@kerosene 🚀🌚👽

[HelenM]

Excellent. Made me laugh and reminded me of that wonderful book by Simon Singh "Big Bang"

[Wendy Bowden]

that is so cool!

[Swillin' Billy Flynn]

Beautifully done. :)

[Louise & Ken]

I loved working out this project! Compared to the "big images" your group used, mine was a bit tizzy, but I enjoyed it! Your photo looks so good, and indeed, blends beautifully into black!