The Daily Caller - 10/10/13, Michael Bastasch
bout every 11 years, the two magnetic poles of the sun reverse as the the star’s inner magnetic dynamo adjusts itself. The flipping of the sun’s magnetic poles is a big event for our solar system as the sun’s heliosphere — the extent of the sun’s magnetic influence — reaches beyond even Pluto.
“The chances of solar magnetic storms occurring are also high. These storms carry a vast amount of charged particles and magnetic fields through interplanetary space and can pose a threat to satellite operations, telecommunications, air traffic on polar routes and power grids in countries at high latitudes,” Dibyendu Nandi of Kolkata’s Indian Institute of Science Education
and Research, told The Times of India.
