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Old 09-08-2006, 05:34 PM
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Our Galaxies magnetic field is pretty weak (Earths=50 micro tesla, Milky Way=0.1 nano tesla) so I dont know if a compass would respond to it in intergalactic space? The galactic magnetic north is above the centre (core) of the Milky Way, probably somewhere in Opiuchus.
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