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Second Pole To The Right, Straight On 'til Morning

Posted by timothy on from the asbestos-shoes dept.

billn writes "NASA article about the Sun's south pole going walkabout. Some nice imagery from SOHO, as well as some neat animations about the heliospheric sheet."

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  1. Re:YOU by aderusha · · Score: 2, Informative

    huh? you mean "second star to the right, straight on till morning"? that's from peter pan dude...

  2. Re:Damn you Joachim! by barakn · · Score: 2, Informative
    the internal dynamo within our parent star is not understood quite as well as we thought

    Huh? Actually scientists have always considered stellar and planetary dynamos to be very enigmatic. No one has ever claimed they knew them "well." The story isn't about the dynamo, it's about how the heliosphere's shape changes in response to magnetic fields on the surface. As for the double north pole, the article states "it's a fairly normal side-effect of the solar cycle."

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