SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: New Pulsars, Saturn Moons, More

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Pulsar Stars, Stormy Saturn, More
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January 9, 2009--Storms seem to compete for space in this natural color view of Saturn's north pole captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

A tantalizing corner of Saturn's mysterious north polar hexagon appears in the upper right of the image. Cassini scientists plan to study this phenomenon when the sun rises on Saturn's pole later this year.

Multiple images captured by the spacecraft on November 16, 2008, were combined to create this single view.

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—Photograph courtesy of Space Science Institute/JPL/NASA
 
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