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Imagine a home hanging beneath a balloon in Neptune's sky, where the wind runs at 1,300 miles an hour, the air is −330°F, and there is no ground below. It is an imagined life on a real planet; every number in it is real. Inside, a cup of tea sits perfectly still. How could that be, in the fastest winds in the solar system?

Tonight follows that life slowly: a Sun shrunk to a star, storms wider than the Earth, clouds that vanish, and a moon that travels backward.

Lie back and let one long, quiet life on the most distant planet keep you company. Subscribe to The Last Astronomer if you like to end the day wondering what the sky would do.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
2:00 The First Morning
15:00 A Planet Found With a Pencil
28:00 Fifty Seven Earths and No Ground
40:00 Four Hours Behind
53:00 A Sky With No Floor
1:06:00 The Wind You Cannot Feel
1:19:00 The Fire Inside
1:32:00 The Storm the Size of the Earth
1:46:00 The Year the Clouds Went Away
1:58:00 Lights in the Wrong Place
2:11:00 Dark Rings and Small Moons
2:23:00 The Moon That Goes Backward
2:37:00 The Ocean Underneath
2:50:00 Could Anyone Really Live Here?
3:04:00 A Life Shorter Than a Year
3:16:00 What If You Lived on Neptune

SOURCES
NASA, Neptune: Facts — https://science.nasa.gov/neptune/facts
NASA NSSDCA, Neptune Fact Sheet — https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...
NASA, Triton — https://science.nasa.gov/neptune/moon...
ESA/Webb, Webb captures Neptune's auroras for the first time — https://esawebb.org/news/weic2507/
SLAC, Scientists Create 'Diamond Rain' That Forms in the Interior of Icy Giant Planets — https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2...
STScI via AURA, Dark Storm on Neptune Reverses Direction — https://www.aura-astronomy.org/blog/2...
NASA Goddard via ScienceDaily, Neptune's disappearing clouds linked to the solar cycle — https://sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Science News, New thermal maps of Neptune reveal surprising temperature swings — https://www.sciencenews.org/article/n...
Sky & Telescope, Uranus & Neptune: Thin Weather Layers — https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy...
NASA NTRS, Tidal evolution in the Neptune-Triton system — https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890...
NASA NTRS, Neptune Odyssey: A Flagship Concept — https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210...
Astronomy, Sept. 23, 1846: Johann Galle discovers Neptune — https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-th...
EarthSky, Voyager 2: Our 1st and only visit to Neptune — https://earthsky.org/space/voyager-2-...
NASA JPL, The New Aerial Explorers: Self-Inflating Solar-Heated Balloons — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/the-new...

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Disclaimer: The Last Astronomer makes speculative science films for rest and relaxation. Every scenario on this channel is hypothetical and is presented as one; none of it is a forecast, a prediction, or a warning. The physics used to follow each scenario is drawn from published research, space agencies, and recognized scientific institutions, and estimates are described as estimates. This channel does not report the news. Viewer discretion is advised.

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