You spin against opaque and barren skies,
An ancient god now floating in the deep;
Your secrets hidden from our prying eyes,
An azure giant frozen deep in sleep.
Across your marbled surface storm clouds race,
With weathered patterns we are yet to trace;
The gloaming peels away your dim veneer,
A stolen glance inside your atmosphere.
The planet Neptune (Photo Credit: By NASA, via Wikimedia Commons).
This is a Heroic Rispetto, inspired by recent research which has discovered an enormous storm system on the planet Neptune. This observation was made at twilight, a time that has traditionally been underused by astronomers, as they have previously considered it too
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