The Sun

[Nanos]

I was watching this earlier:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/sc ... i-AA17qfmx
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'New York Post' reports that scientists were recently baffled after watching material break off of the Sun's surface. The remarkable phenomenon, which created a tornado-like swirl around the Sun's northern pole, was captured by NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope
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Reminds me of this jet:

[img]http://www.nanos.org.uk/jet.jpg[/img]

Anyone remind me how you get a working image in a post ?

[Nanos]

Related link:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technol ... r-AA17hx6S
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msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/part-of-the-sun-is-broken-and-scientists-are-baffled/ar-AA17hx6S
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A section of the sun has left the surface and begun circulating around the top of the star as if it were a huge polar vortex, and it’s not exactly clear why it’s happened.

The observation was made possible thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, and its no surprise that it piqued the interests of scientists everywhere.

Tamitha Skov is a space weather physicist who regularly shares updates on social media, and she seemed incredibly excited about the latest developments.

“Talk about Polar Vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star,” she wrote.

“Implications for understanding the Sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”

Solar prominences consist of hydrogen and helium, and they extrude from the sun’s service releasing plasma.

While there’s confusion around the cause of the phenomenon, it could be related to the reversal of the sun’s magnetic field, as well as the fact that something expected has been known to happen when the sun reaches a 55 degree latitude in every 11-year solar cycle.

Solar physicist Scott McIntosh, who is the deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado told Space.com: "Once every solar cycle, it forms at the 55 degree latitude and it starts to march up to the solar poles.

“It's very curious. There is a big 'why' question around it. Why does it only move toward the pole one time and then disappears and then comes back, magically, three or four years later in exactly the same region?"
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Which links to:

https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/ ... 3075109888
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twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/1621276153075109888
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[Skipjack]

Interestingly the guys at HelicitySpace are working on a fusion concept that is derived from experiments trying to reproduce so called plectonemes, helical structures that have also been observed on the sun.
In really like Helicityspace. Their idea is somewhat similar to what Helion is doing but they can merge multiple plectonemes, which could be interesting.
Unfortunately Seth and his team don't have a lot of funding yet

[Nanos]

Related links:

https://golden.com/wiki/HelicitySpace-W484BR6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNnKbv_1MQ
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Helecity concept
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[PolyGirl]

Nice Image!



The form you are looking for is: {img=insert link here with quotes}

However replace the braces with square brackets. It is not necessary to put [/img] at the end, but doing so makes formatting better?

Regards
Polygirl

[93143]

Nice Image!

The image in your post is broken for me.

[Carl White]

Looks like the nanos.org.uk website doesn't like having its images linked or something.

Here's the same image from another source:



Here is a similar image which (to me) better represents what they are after:



"Better propulsion system for next generation space travel"

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vacuu ... ace-travel

An older article though (2016) and I didn't find much in the way of recent updates. Even though the article states, "We are testing a thruster prototype in collaboration with industry."

[93143]

I can see both of those.

[PolyGirl]

I used your original link (web address), so I do not know why you should not be able to see it?

This is the web address I used:

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http://www.nanos.org.uk/jet.jpg

This is the code I used:

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[img src="http://www.nanos.org.uk/jet.jpg"][/img]

And for good measure here is the image again:



So no problems with the link.

The other image you showed Carl White, nice one as well.

Regards
Polygirl

[Betruger]

And for good measure here is the image again:



So no problems with the link.

Unsecured http instead of https and as said above the webmaster may have disabled hotlinking.

You can always save a local copy > attach file. Or mirror with e.g. imgur.com