In today's science revelations, new telescope images reveal the true hues of the planets Uranus and Neptune.

The original images of the two ice planets were taken during the Voyager 2 mission in 1986 where photos of Neptune were “stretched and enhanced” to appear like a bright artificial blue ball while Uranus had a pale greenish hue. In reality, the two plants are much closer in color. 

“Even though the artificially-saturated colour was known at the time amongst planetary scientists — and the images were released with captions explaining it — that distinction had become lost over time,” says the research study's author, Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford.

In the new images, Uranus is even paler than we realize. And it is not a bleach job, it’s the planet's orbit that changes its color from a pale green to a pale blue. The new photos of Uranus and Neptune side by side now look like one of those color-blind testing games that you look at and spiral thinking you’re colorblind.

So get cultured and intellectual by staring at these scientifically accurate telescope images of two big blue balls.