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NASA's Hubble Telescope spots mysterious 10-sided structure around Saturn's south pole. What is it?

"We've never seen anything quite like this in Saturn's southern hemisphere," said Amy Simon, the principal investigator on ...
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A Mysterious Decagon Unexpectedly Appeared Around Saturn’s South Pole. The Ten-Sided Shape Seems to Be a Wave in the Atmosphere

Decades ago, scientists found a hexagon around Saturn’s north pole. Now, recent images reveal a decagon in the planet’s ...

Saturn just sprouted a bizarre decagon-shaped cloud pattern

Only after they pinned down the southern decagon did researchers compare it to Saturn's north‑pole hexagon (Yes, there's ...
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Saturn’s south pole has a 10-sided decagon wave that looks like it was drawn with a ruler

Saturn’s south pole has a newly identified 10-sided atmospheric wave. Hubble observations show the decagon changing since ...
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Hubble spots mysterious 10-sided 'decagon' swirling around Saturn's south pole —‬ and it wasn't there a decade ago

The Hubble Space Telescope spied a large atmospheric phenomenon on Saturn: a decagon surrounding the south pole.

The farthest human-made object is now so distant that even light takes nearly 24 hours to reach it; exactly 49 years after NASA launched Voyager 1 to explore Jupite…

The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now over 15.9 billion miles away. This spacecraft has ventured into interstellar ...

NASA's Hubble telescope spots giant 10-sided atmospheric wave around Saturn's south pole

This wave exists within Saturn's powerful jet stream and extends across several atmospheric layers.

A Giant Hexagon Has Been Spinning at Saturn’s North Pole for Decades. Now, Scientists Found Its Twin

When NASA’s Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn in 1980, it spotted something unlike anything scientists had seen before: a ...