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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)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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