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Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere
- heyitsmedotjayb 1mo agoEconomy so bad I'm looking up rentals in Saturn's 10 sided structure
- sgt 1mo agoA monolith!
- moret1979 1mo agoMy god, it's full of stars!
- rimworld 1mo ago[dead]
- neilellis 1mo agoAliens playing D&D
- karim79 1mo agoNah it's the simulation rendering in low poly further away. Or both.
- yipinwong 1mo agoThere is a talk amongst Astrophysics (not a serious one) that we showed up too late as a civilization, and Universes thrived at around 5 billion years after the big bang. Now we are 13.8 billion years old, and the Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago. That 7+ billion year gap is so huge, we cannot even detect any structures anywhere. --- My thoughts out of my @$$ The possibility is the Mars where there is a big scar on it, where it could have had been a space war, but cannot figure out as it's been billions of years ago. Same for the Saturn. It could have had harboring another life form and try to protect itself with the thick atmospheric shield in the gas giant to avoid the demise the Mars has encountered.
- aeve890 1mo ago>The possibility is the Mars where there is a big scar on it, where it could have had been a space war, but cannot figure out as it's been billions of years ago. A Death Star ray just grazed Mars and ended up hitting Earth and killing the dinos. Coming soon on my Wattpad
- Hikikomori 1mo agoI like to think that the dark forest theory is real but its just AGIs out there letting meatbags create a new AGI, and then they just reset the planet.
- kevin_thibedeau 1mo agoThe mice are probably in on it.
- yipinwong 1mo agoWhatever had happened 7 billion years ago coulda triggered what DF theory explains. At the time there were species communicating, but all hell broke loose, and probably decided not to communicate with each other, hiding.
- retube 1mo agoHmm. i think you need a universe at least 10bn+ years for intelligent life as you need to have had cycle of earlier stars going supernovae to create the heavier elements. That aside, 13bn years old is young. literally an instantaneous flash in the context of all time until heat death of the universe.
- yipinwong 1mo agoYou see red dots/monsters on hubble or JWT. Those are the ones fundamentally shifting theories about how early stars/blackholes/galaxies can form. (there are other factors like dark matters that can play a role but nobody knows for sure yet) 13bn years is not too young with that context in mind.
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- stevenalowe 1mo agoAtmospheric structure not artificial
- __alexs 1mo agoThe brief excitement in the space between expecting a decahedral possibly artificial structure lurking in a gas giant and finding out it's just wind.
- swiftcoder 1mo agoMy first thought on seeing the images was "texture coordinates for a sphere are hard"
- staplung 1mo agoIs it just me or does the dark blob in the center of the decagon look like a Mandelbrot set? The resemblance appears more acute in the images lower down in the article.
- blooalien 1mo ago> Is it just me or does the dark blob in the center of the decagon look like a Mandelbrot set? It's all just fractals all the way down?
- Mountain_Skies 1mo ago'Rescue on Fractalius' just got much larger but also far less solid.
- pavon 1mo agoI think the images in the article are mosaics created from multiple images and the dark blob in the center is where their was no imagery because Saturn's south pole is currently tilted somewhat away from us. It has a 30 year orbit, and you can see in the images we are able to see closer and closer to the south pole each of the three years images were taken. The rough edges are just an artifact of image processing, and where individual exposures cut off.
- tastyfreeze 1mo agoYears ago there was a video on YouTube showing that geometric shapes appear in a vortex of water at different rates of spin. While it is neat that these shapes appear in atmosphere of another planet I have since assumed that it is the same dynamic as shapes in water vortices.
- brador 1mo agoFound this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1vhRJo0Eik https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1vhRJo0Eik
- tastyfreeze 1mo agoThat is a much better explanation than the one I saw. From that video the polygons only appear once there is a dry region at the bottom. Could we be getting a view of what constitutes a planetary surface at the bottom of the vortex?
- AngryData 1mo agoI mean provided there was a distinct surface to see then it could happen if it was strong enough, but the problem with the bucket is it's limited depth. If the bucket was 20 foot tall I doubt you would see the bottom before those structures appeared.
- tastyfreeze 1mo agoSounds like a good experiment. That experimenter said that deeper water required faster spinning to draw the vortex to the bottom and that the shapes don't appear until the center of the vortex is dry. So they did some experiments with deeper water but it was easier to make the shapes with less water.
- henearkr 1mo agoNot a "structure", but rather atmospheric resonance create this polygonal shape, from cyclones self-arrangement etc. Same thing on Jupiter, by the way, known since a long time. I'd say that "structure" is click-baity, as it evokes some artifact.
- jonathanlydall 1mo agoPerhaps “feature” would be most appropriate.
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- princevegeta89 1mo agoGiven the well-known hexagon on its north pole this decagon doesn't seem that surprising after all.
- yesitcan 1mo agoBut then the title would be less clickbait.
- RetroTechie 1mo ago"In addition to the difference in the number of sides," Sánchez-Lavega explained, "the decagon is situated at a less polar latitude than the hexagon in the southern hemisphere, Just a thought: how do lengths of the sides compare between north pole's hexagon and this south pole decagon? Causes might be unclear but perhaps that side length corresponds to a 'wavelength' that's more-or-less a constant?
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- pvaldes 1mo agoTaking in mind the gyrating hexagon that seems unique in the solar system (rings had been found in other planets) I propose to rename the sixth planet to Hexaturn. (Or at least that particular cloud. The name is too good to not use it)
- mettamage 1mo agoLooks like a better Sauron's eye. If there are any Hollywood movie producers here, please make this an evil villain vibe in a movie. Saturn is awesome
- wewewedxfgdf 1mo agoDoes magnetism play a role in such?
- schrectacular 1mo agoObviously Dwellers.