Astronomy Picture of the Day . Spirit Rover at Engineering Flats on Mars . ... The picture.. ... Earths North Magnetic Pole . ... A magnetic compass does not point toward the true North Pole of the Earth. Rather, it more closely points toward the North Magnetic Pole of the Earth. The North Magnetic Pole is currently located in northern Canada. ... Only 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, M55 appears to earth-bound observers to be nearly 2/3 the size of the full moon. ...