The needle of a compass can point to any star you'd like it to. Just flip and turn the compass and the needle will be in different directions, poinling to different stars. But a compass isn't...
The compass needle always points toward the Earth's magnetic north pole. That's located in northern Canada, more than 950 miles from the real north pole. There aren't many places on Earth where the...
Yes , well mostly. It actually points to magnetic north, which isn't exactly at the North Pole. The Earth's magnetic field is offset from true geographic north and the North Magnetic Pole is...
The simple answer is that the magnetized needle is being attracted by the North Magnetic Pole (which is close to, but not the same as the geographic North Pole). However, the colored part of the...