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cm0002@lemmy.world to Space@mander.xyz · 3 days ago

See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun's South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft

www.smithsonianmag.com

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See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun's South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft

www.smithsonianmag.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to Space@mander.xyz · 3 days ago
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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

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      Check out Saturn’s poles, it’s got a bestagon

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        This might be a stupid question, but is there 1 giant storm through the planet?

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        Thats fucking awesome, thank you

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        Is there a known regular hexagon larger than the one on Saturn?

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          There’s just the one, right on its north pole.

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            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?

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              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

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                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.

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      It’s sad to say but we may never see Pluto again, at least in high definition.

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        Why not?

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          There aren’t any plans to send any more missions to Pluto afaik

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