The Cassini spacecraft has filmed polar lights above the characteristic hexagonal cloud at the north pole of Saturn. Scientists discovered that, highly atypically, the polar lights are also created in spots within the circle, closer to the pole. The...
Saturn, the ringed planet, has a magnetic field that guides the Sun particles to the poles, where circular polar lights are created. When the Sun is particularly active, strong polar lights light up the planet for several days – on Earth, the strong...