# Full disclosure dept.: a compass on the sun

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**Created:** [September 25, 2013, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-disclosure-dept-a-compass-on-the-sun/669635 "2013-09-25T11:41:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-disclosure-dept-a-compass-on-the-sun/669635/1 "2013-09-25T11:41:59Z")

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In yesterday’s Science Times in an article about the current feeble solarmax, the following appears:

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> If you had a compass on the Sun’s north pole and it was pointing before solar maximum, it would be pointing south after solar maximum. (Actually, the compass would vaporize.)

In fact a compass at the magnetic pole would point straight up or straight down. But that parenthetical remark just tickled my funny bone.