Thirty-four years after Voyager 2 glimpsed Neptune in passing, the James Webb Space Telescope returned a more patient gaze and found the planet's upper atmosphere nearly 400 degrees colder than that fleeting encounter had suggested. In confirming Neptune's long-suspected auroras through the molecular signature of H3+, Webb simultaneously deepened the mystery it set out to resolve — reminding us that a single observation, however brilliant, can quietly become the myth a civilization inherits as fact. What we are left with is not an answer but a more honest accounting of ignorance, and the rare