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See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun's South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
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Why is it only now that I realize Ive only seen the poles of 1 planet and 1 pole of the sun. I really want to see the other 7 planets and Pluto now
Check out Saturn's poles, it's got a bestagon
Thats fucking awesome, thank you
Is there a known regular hexagon larger than the one on Saturn?
There's just the one, right on its north pole.
Yeah, that regular hexagon is something like twice the Earth's diameter on a side, it's enormous. I was wondering if we know of a regular hexagon larger than that anywhere in the known universe?
It's a bit like, is the Titanic the largest manmade object ever accidentally broken in half?
Do Lagrange points count? I guess it's only 4 of the 6 points of a hexagon, with the smaller mass, and the L3, L4 and L5 points forming the 4 points
I don't think so, as you point out only 4 points are defined, and...I'm sure you could find like six stars around the rim of a galaxy that are equidistant and go "these form a regular hexagon 40,000 light years to a side" No I'm think I'll restrict it to a structure that through some force more compelling than random happenstance has formed itself into a hexagon.
This might be a stupid question, but is there 1 giant storm through the planet?
It's sad to say but we may never see Pluto again, at least in high definition.
Why not?
There aren't any plans to send any more missions to Pluto afaik