Did Sun's UV radiation cause Neptune clouds to vanish? Will it affect Earth? Know in details

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Hubble Space Telescope has recently observed a notable reduction in Neptune's cloud cover, as reported by Yahoo News. The 11-year solar cycle, in which solar activity is influenced by the magnetic fields of the Sun, is connected to this shift in Neptune's atmosphere. Neptune's cloud cover is linked to solar activity rather than its long seasons, according to data gathered over three decades by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the Lick Observatory in California, as reported by NASA. Even though Neptune receives a mere 0.1% of Earth's sunlight, its cloud patterns are influenced by the sun's cycle. At the moment, Neptune has very little cloud cover, except a few clouds over its southern pole.

Quick Shifts in Cloud Activity

Professor Imke de Pater of UC Berkeley observed that Neptune's clouds disappeared quite swiftly in 2019, noting a notable decline in just a few months. Cloud cover hasn't returned to normal after four years. The lead researcher, Erandi Chavez, pointed out that the last decline in Neptune's cloud cover was shorter and less dramatic.

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Did the solar cycle affect it?

Chavez's group examined images taken between 2002 and 2022 at the Keck Observatory, Hubble's archived data from 1994, and data from the Lick Observatory between 2018 and 2019. They discovered a pattern linking the variations in Neptune's cloud cover to the solar cycle. About two years after solar