Sun's magnetic field "is about to flip", warns NASA

Approximately every 11 years, the sun’s magnetic field does a complete reversal of its poles.

                                  

The whole of the sun's magnetic field is about to "flip", according toNASA - with warning signs being spotted by observatories around the world this year.

This "flip" happens every 11 years, and coincides with the greatest solar activity in the "cycles" of the sun, known as "solar maximum" - with sunspots and "coronal mass ejections" on the surface of the sun.

"It looks like we're no more than 3 to 4 months away from a complete field reversal," says solar physicist Todd Hoeksema of Stanford University. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system."

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