• Question: What is the most exciting thing you have found in space.

    Asked by 347expd24 to Jack on 12 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Jack Carlyle

      Jack Carlyle answered on 12 Nov 2015:


      Tricky question… I can’t pick a favourite because tiny little comets can be just as exciting as entire galaxies containing 100s of billions of stars, planets and comets! But here’s a cool thing: there’s a giant tornado around the north pole of Saturn… which is a hexagon! o.O I’m not kidding, google it. This is so crazy because usually things like that in nature are smooth, it’s very rare to get corners in wind, and it’s even more rare to get regular shapes appearing… Let alone in a huge 13,800 km tornado!!

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