Recent posts about Wells, Minnesota on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Wells is mentioned 427 times on our forum: Latest news from Wells, MN collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: German (46.7%), Norwegian (9.7%), American (6.1%), English (3.0%), Polish (2.8%), French (1.5%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 1.35 square miles.
Neptune, the most distant planet, takes 4.16 hours for light to reach. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, takes light 4.3 years to get to. The fastest spacecraft ever launched from Earth is NASA's New Horizons mission, which will make a close encounter with Pluto and its moons in 2015.
How long is a day on Neptune? A planet's day is the time it takes the planet to rotate or spin once on its axis. Neptune rotates faster than Earth so a day on Neptune is shorter than a day on Earth. A day on Neptune is about 16 Earth hours while a day on Earth is 23.934 hours. Cool Cosmos is an IPAC website. Based on Government Sponsored Research NAS7-03001 and NNN12AA01C.