{"id":3927784,"date":"2026-09-02T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:03:22","slug":"hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn&#8217;s south pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Recent observations with NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn&#8217;s south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large, regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet&#8217;s southern hemisphere. The feature appears remarkably similar to Saturn&#8217;s famous hexagon at its north pole but is also distinctly different, suggesting scientists may be witnessing a new atmospheric phenomenon developing on the iconic gas giant.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-hubble-tracks-decagon-encircling-saturn.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent observations with NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn&#8217;s south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large, regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet&#8217;s southern hemisphere. The feature appears remarkably similar to Saturn&#8217;s famous hexagon at its north pole but is also distinctly [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}