Jupiter’s north pole is dominated not by one storm but by a central cyclone surrounded by eight others, each thousands of kilometres wide — and NASA’s Juno team revealed in April 2025 that they push against their neighbours and bounce around their positions like masses connected by springs, preserving a strange geometric formation unlike anything yet observed beyond Jupiter.
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Juno tracking shows that nine immense north-polar cyclones preserve their rough octagon through competing vorticity forces that act like a spring system.
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