The Moon That Tipped a Planet

Neptune on 1989-08-17, taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe (Credit : NASA)

Neptune has always been something of a puzzle. The distant ice giant sits tilted at an awkward angle, although not as extreme as Uranus, that astronomers have long struggled to explain. Now new research suggests the answer may have been lurking in its own backyard all along and the culprit is Triton, Neptune’s strange, rebellious moon.

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