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Old 01-06-2007, 10:56 PM
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I would wger the magnetic fields of these objects are not only coherent, but also extremely powerful compare to what we see in the Sun. Not only that, the particles involved would be much more energetic too.

The force on a charged particle is the cross product of the magnetic field and the direction of trave times its charge. The sun might have a similar magnetic field, but with out highly energetic particles we won't really see any jets.

I would argue the Sun does have jets, just none of them are so big and the curve back. We call them solar flares.
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