Every ten years people band together and declare that the world is about to end, based on some cause. But earth's rotation axis with santa claus at the top is not flipping. The compass needle is itself a magnet with a north and a south pole. It points to the north magnetic pole - which does not exactly aline with Santa Claus. If you try to findSantaClaus with a compass and your northern canada, you' gaingto land in the wrong spot.
Are we rethinking the Big Bang? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore features of the James Webb Space Telescope, magnetism and how the aurora borealis works, and if the Big Bang is being debunked.
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Photo Credit: United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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