05-09-2026 11:00 via mashable.com

Saturn just sprouted a bizarre decagon-shaped cloud pattern

Astronomers just spotted an enormous, 10-sided shape surrounding Saturn's southern skies.They call it a decagon because it has 10 corners and 10 long sides. It rings the planet's southern mid-latitudes, where a powerful jet stream races around the globe. From Earth, we don't literally look up at Saturn's underbelly. Instead, Saturn tilts on its axis, so its poles lean toward or away from us in space over its long seasons. For more than a decade, the south stayed tipped away, and even our be
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