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Space scientists have been shocked to discover that the Sun appears
to have no south magnetic pole.

Instruments on board the probe Ulysses have been measuring the radial
component of the solar magnetic field. The field lines were expected to
become more bunched and intense as the probe approached the south pole.
‘Instead, the strength of the magnetic field remained absolutely constant,’
says Richard Marsden, a project scientist on Ulysses.

The only reasonable explanation, says Marsden, is that the Sun’s south
magnetic pole is large and diffuse.