Everyone's talking about Jupiter's auroras and I'm just here like

pazuzu

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CougheeBeans

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PlaidGuitar

Saturn terrifies me on a level where I feel kinship to the tiny beings that live on my skin.

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LeftyNotSoLeftist

How big is it? It's cool!

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EGGsalad88

Banana for scale

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throughthoughtthough

about 30 big

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buzzl1ght

Woa that's big

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Lacuna73

In case anyone is wondering, hexagons often appear in nature due to the fact that it is the most efficient symmetrical shape that can be (1

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ShreddinTheGnar

Informative. +1

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bravecatgaming

damn nature sure is good at engineering for being such a bitch

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Lacuna73

repeatedly stacked together to cover the most surface area with the least number of units compared to other symmetrical shapes (2

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bntli

I'm pretty sure they recreated it in a big water tank

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Lacuna73

https://www.quora.com/Geometry-Why-do-we-see-hexagons-in-nature-so-often

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Lacuna73

heres some links explaining it: (3

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Lacuna73

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-nature-prefers-hexagons

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Ashpashsmash

That's interesting. Thank you :)

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