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[–] 9 points 1 year ago

It looks like this: *

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 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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  • 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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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

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  • This feels like the sun has been upskirted

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hold up, the Ulysses probe didn't take any pictures of the Sun's poles? Or did it not carry a camera?

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  • Or did it not carry a camera?

    It did not:

    All pre-existing images of the sun were taken from within about 7 degrees of its equator. That’s because every spacecraft orbiting the star, along with every planet in our solar system, swoops around the sun in a flat disk called the ecliptic plane, which is tilted just 7.25 degrees relative to the sun’s equatorial plane. (The Ulysses spacecraft is the only one to have passed over the sun’s poles, but it didn’t have a camera.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is it orangey yellow? I bet it's orangey yellow.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'll let you know in a few minutes after this big black dot goes away from my vision.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I was expecting to see something interesting, akin to the colossal-sized hexagonal storm that ominously drapes across the entire polar region of Saturn, but seeing the images of the sun's poles, I realize it's hard to look at an eternal enormous explosion that has existed before the solar system was a twinkle in God's ballsack.

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