
New Hubble observations have actually exposed a remarkable, 10-sided jet surrounding Saturn’s south pole, and it seems progressing before our eyes.
The Hubble Space Telescope just recently snapped a high-resolution view of the striking “atmospheric wave,” which appears to have actually started forming in 2023, archival Hubble images reveal. Researchers wonder about how this “decagon” appeared so rapidly, considered that Saturn’s other well-known multisided wave– a hexagon at the north pole — has actually been observed in the world for 40-plus years.
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