Hubble Just Found Something Strange Forming on Saturn
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed something extraordinary developing around Saturn’s south pole: a giant 10-sided atmospheric wave known as the Saturn decagon. For decades, scientists have studied Saturn’s famous northern hexagon, one of the strangest atmospheric structures in the Solar System. But new Hubble observations show that Saturn’s southern hemisphere is now producing something completely different. Researchers traced the Saturn decagon back to Hubble observations from 2023. Ground-based astronomers noticed the unusual atmospheric wave in 2024, and by 2025 the structure had become increasingly distinct. The enormous pattern sits inside a powerful jet stream in Saturn’s atmosphere, with individual sides stretching farther than Earth’s diameter. Even more surprising, scientists may be watching this planetary-scale structure develop and evolve in real time. In this video, we investigate how Hubble discovered Saturn’s new decagon, why Saturn has a hexagon in the north but
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