The universe is a strange, mysterious and glorious place. An unusual event has taken place at the North Pole of the planet Saturn. A huge weather system over the pole has created a bizarre hexagon-shaped formation within the center of the massive storm.

The first time this was noted was over 26 years ago by both Voyager craft as they inspected the ringed planet. Now, a quarter of a century later Cassini has found a second one, much larger and darker than the storm formation found by Voyager. What makes this event unique is not only the size of the odd-shaped storm, but this is the first time the strange feature has been captured on one image.

The other important fact about this feature is that it shouldn’t even exist and NASA has caught two separate ones spaced apart by over 25 years. Kevin Baines, one of NASA’s atmospheric experts and a member of the Cassini mapping team said, “Saturn’s thick atmosphere, where circularly shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”

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