But unlike the northern lights, which are visible from many places in the Northern Hemisphere, the southern lights are more ...

This means that the Sun’s north and south magnetic poles switch places. Then it takes about another 11 years for the Sun’s north and south poles to flip back again.” ...

Other South Poles. The pole your compass points toward when you head south is the magnetic south pole.That pole suffers from a case of wanderlust, moving northwest toward Australia at six to nine ...

3D rendering of Planet Earth's magnetic field. Earth is unique in the solar system for a number of reasons: It's the only planet with a breathable oxygen atmosphere, it's covered in liquid water ...

Weird magnetic fields at the sun's south pole. The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, it turns out. The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun ...

A team of researchers used volcanic records to study Earth's last magnetic-field reversal, which occurred about 780,000 years ago.They found that this flip may have taken much longer than ...

The field has a north pole and south pole, the positions of which are constantly moving. The position of the magnetic north pole was first recorded in 1831. But over the coming decades, its ...