Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

At the Winter Solstice, the sun travels the shortest path through the sky resulting ... During the Winter Solstice, the North Pole is tilted at around 23.4 degrees away from the sun, meaning ...

Check your compass again – Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

When you think of the North Pole’s location ... s magnetic field points downward and also how it protects from solar radiation. Image source: koya979 / Adobe It is this exact position that ...

which is the engine behind the magnetic field that shields us from harmful solar radiation." The shifting of the North Pole has a big impact on the World Magnetic Model, which "predicts where the ...

An annular (ring-shaped) solar eclipse is visible only within a 425 miles+ wide “path of annularity” stretching from Canada over the North Pole to Siberia. It will be visible at sunrise in ...

Generated by the churning molten metals in Earth’s core, the magnetosphere shields the planet from harmful solar ... North Pole. We now know that every day, magnetic north traces an elliptical ...