Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a ten-sided polygonal atmospheric structure near Saturn\u2019s south pole \u2014 a decagon that joins the gas giant\u2019s famous hexagon at the north pole, first observed decades ago.<\/p>\n
The discovery was recently published in the journal Science Advances, with imagery credited through the Space Telescope Science Institute. Saturn\u2019s north-polar hexagon has puzzled scientists for more than forty years; a matching-style geometric jet stream at the opposite pole raises fresh questions about how stable polygonal storms form in fast-spinning atmospheres.<\/p>\n
No aliens. No weather machine. Just physics doing something that still looks like a drafting-table prank when you stare at it long enough.<\/p>\n
Sources: https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/another-perfect-geometric-shape-detected-on-saturn\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The north pole already had a hexagon. Now the south answers with geometry that looks engineered \u2014 and isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}