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The Sun flips its magnetic field poles every eleven years

Solar maximum brings high sunspot numbers solar flares and energetic auroras

The Sun operates on an 11-year solar cycle driven by magnetic dynamo activity inside its convective zone. At the peak of each cycle, known as solar maximum, the Sun's magnetic north and south poles completely flip places, accompanied by elevated numbers of sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

Solar Cycle 25 - the Solar Magnetic Field from Solar Minimum to Pole Flip (SVS5344 - SolarCycle Min2Max HMI 6h HMI INTENSITY 006400 print) — NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Global Science and Technology, Inc./Tom Bridgman, eMITS/Joy Ng, ADNET Systems, · Public domain · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Solar maximum brings high sunspot numbers solar flares and energetic auroras. The figure is taken from NOAA, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.