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How do comets catch fire?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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12y ago

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Comets do not catch fire at all, since comets are generally regarded as "dirty snowballs" in space. Their light is caused by the interaction of water vapour and dust particles with the solar wind and no combustion is taking place.

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Comets are made of frozen mud and ice, and eventually, they errode and lose dust in their tails until being reduced to dust themselves.

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they implode ...

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