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What happens when comets near the sun?
A comet's tail lengthens as it approaches the sun due to greater solar winds. A comets tail always faces away from the sun.
Where does a comets tail extend?
A comet's tail will always extend away from the Sun, even when going away from the Sun.
Do comets or asteroids have a gas tail?
Comets!
What do we see comets as?
Comets are seen as bright, icy bodies that orbit the Sun. When they get closer to the Sun, they release gas and dust in a glowing coma and often develop a tail that points away from the Sun due to solar wind.
What direction does a comets tail always points?
Away from the Sun. The tails is caused by the solar wind.
How is a tail made on a comet?
Comets commonly develop two tails, a vapor trail, which we can see, and a gas/dust trail, which we may or may not be able to see. The tail develops when the heat of the sun causes the ices in the cometary nucleus to vaporize off. The tail always points directly away from the sun.
Why can't you see comets in the night sky all of the time?
Because there aren't always comets!
Why a comets tail always points away from the Sun.?
Does it? 2nd Answer: Of course comets tails point away from the Sun!!! The "tail" is made of varying sizes of ice particles and chunks. The solar wind (a faint outstreaming of solar material) pushes comets' tails out, away from the sun.
Is the tail of Halley's comet is always opposite to the sun?
A comet's ion (gas) tail always points directly away from the sun. Some comets also have a dust tail (antitail) which may curve slightly away to the side of the ion tail.
What three things are comets made of?
Comets are made of mainly 3 parts -dust tail, ion tail and coma
Which celestial objects usually has a tail?
None. Comets have a tail, but that's not "usually", only when they are close to the Sun (which is when we see them, of course). Most of the time, when they are far away from the Sun, they have no tail. The tail is caused by the solar wind.
This has a tail when it is near to the sun?
Comets
