A vast and evolving anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, situated above South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, ...
The upcoming switch in polarity will be from the northern to southern magnetic ... will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching ...
But the aurora can also form around the magnetic south pole. These are what we call the southern lights, or aurora australis. When the solar wind disrupts our magnetic field, that’s called a ...