Sun’s Magnetic Field Flips
2001-02-15
The sun’s magnetic field shifted today, indicating that the solar maximum will be at its most intense over the next few months. A shift in the sun’s polarity is not an unexpected event during a solar maximum, which has occurred every eleven years since the sunspot cycle was discovered.
The sun’s magnetic north pole is now in its southern hemisphere. It was in the northern hemisphere just a few weeks ago.
The poles will remain in their current position until 2012, when they will reverse again.
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