{"id":123152,"date":"2021-09-23T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//?p=123152"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:41:00","slug":"neptune-celebrates-175th-birthday-still-a-mystery-worth-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//neptune-celebrates-175th-birthday-still-a-mystery-worth-solving/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152//","title":{"rendered":"Neptune Celebrates 175th Birthday, Still a Mystery Worth Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students and community members got a nice view of the planet Neptune and its biggest moon Triton during one of September/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u2019s Knights Under the Stars events hosted at Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u2019s Robinson Observatory./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/n

It was an early look at the planet, which today celebrates its 175th birthday./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u201cI did a Neptune project all the way back in my undergraduate days,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u201d says  Pegasus Professor of Physics Joseph Harrington, who specializes in exoplanets. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u201cIt was my first real astronomy project. Even today, it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u2019s quite a mystery. There are several mission concepts out there and there/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u2019s a highly motivated group of astronomers pushing them, but there are no approved missions /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u2013 yet./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123152/n