• bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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            3 days ago

            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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              3 days ago

              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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                2 days ago

                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.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      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.)