{"id":243599,"date":"2026-09-04T01:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:29:36","slug":"hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole","title":{"rendered":"Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn\u2019s south pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-tracks-new-decagon-encircling-saturns-south-pole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent observations with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn\u2019s south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet\u2019s southern hemisphere. The feature appears remarkably similar to Saturn\u2019s famous hexagon at its northern pole, but is also distinctly different, suggesting scientists may be witnessing a new atmospheric phenomenon develop on the iconic gas giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent observations with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn\u2019s south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet\u2019s southern hemisphere. The feature appears remarkably similar to Saturn\u2019s famous hexagon at its northern pole, but is also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}