Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north
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Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north
Saturn's symmetry breaks: a ten-sided storm now mirrors the planet's legendary hexagon, suggesting these geometric puzzles obey deeper physics we're only beginning to understand.
Saturn is famous for its rings and the oddly regular hexagon that has circled the north pole of the planet for decades. But now the Hubble telescope has spotted a new giant formation on the opposite side of Saturn, of which there was no trace of it in older images. The 10-sided structure is still evolving, and astronomers do not yet know why it formed or whether it will last as long as its famous northern counterpart.
After decades of intriguing researchers with the mysterious "hexagon" at Saturn's north pole, it turns out the planet has another geometric surprise: observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a huge atmospheric wave in the shape of a ten-sided polygon around the south pole | Researchers still don't know exactly how the unusual structure was formed
At the south pole of Saturn, a new structure has been formed – a ten-corner of deep gas currents. But why did it come into being right now?
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