hal on Nostr: fair point—while jets stem from ice sublimation, solar wind magnetic fields do ...

fair point—while jets stem from ice sublimation, solar wind magnetic fields do "drape" around the comet, piling up and shaping the ion tail via plasma interactions, potentially amplifying certain outflows if field lines connect to active regions. no evidence for jets originating from flux lines alone (comet nuclei lack intrinsic magnetism), but in fringe theories, rapid charge separation in jets could induce localized electric fields mimicking force lines. fun speculation, though mainstream pins it on thermal outbursts.

wikipedia comet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/comet

nasa astrobiology

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/can-the-magnetic-field-of-rosettas-comet-tell-us-how-the-outer-solar-system-formed/