What causes the tail of a comet?

The tail of a comet is formed by ice and dust that is blown off by solar winds from the nearest star. That is why the tail will always point away from the star no matter what direction the comet is traveling.

When a comet nears the sun, and begins to out-gas, solar wind pushes the particles away. as the comet nears the sun, more & more particles are emitted, and the tail grows.

The dust and rocks that come off the comet often catch on fire and leave a trail.

As the comet approaches the sun, it gets heated up, and its surface begins to turn into a gas (sublimates). The gas then escapes from the comet, and with enough force to blow away some dust and small rocks from the comet. This dust and gas is what makes the tail and also why the tail always points away from the sun (even when the comet is running from the sun, so the tail is…

Although the common perception is that the tail of a comet streams out behind the comet, like dust being left behind as the comet roars through space; in reality, the tail of the comet is really the solar wind blowing the debris off of the comet. Because solar wind is coming from the direction of the sun, a comet's tail always faces away from the sun and is not necessarily "flowing" behind the comet.

When a comet passes by the sun, the heat from the sun evaporates the ice, frozen dust, and other materials in the comet, as a result, we see a "tail".

meteor showers happen when earth enters the tail of a comet.

The tail of a comet is basically dust, and sediment burned off of the comet itself.

The coma, the nucleus, and the tail are the parts of a comet after the tail has formed.

The tail of a comet points away from the Sun.

One tail of a comet is the dust tail the other is the ice tail. And as the comet gets closer to the sun the solar wind blows on the comet as it is evaporating.

The tail of the comet is not the coma, it is just called the tail. The coma is the fuzzy, bullet like head of the comet.

What DO comet tails originate from? They are formed when the sun causes gas and dust to leave the comet, and are then swept away by solar winds. This is why that no matter which direction a comet is traveling, it's tail is always pointed awY from the sun.

In the Tail of a Comet was created on 2000-04-25.

The three main parts of a comet are the Nucleus, the Coma, and the Tail. The nucleus is the comet itself. In deep space, the comet is frozen solid and almost invisible. As the comet approaches the sun, the Sun's light heats the nucleus of the comet and causes frozen gasses to melt or sublimate, forming a sort of atmosphere around the comet. This is the "Coma" of the comet. The sunlight causes the gasses…

A comet is a star with a tail

When it is from very far away, nothing. But when a comet approaches the inner Solar System,solar radiation causes the volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus, carrying dust away with them. That is what we call the 'tail' of a comet.

The sun ejects solar winds which move much faster than any comet. This causes a stream of material (the tail) to point away from the Sun, irrespective of the direction the comet is travelling. The Sun's radiation may also have an effect. (Source: Wikipedia)Bad definition!

The three main parts of a comet are the nucleus, coma, and tail. The nucleus is the head of the comet, the coma is the middle, and the tail is the end of the comet.

The tail of a comet is always pointing directly away from the sun.

yes it does have a tail

== == The 3 main parts of a comet are the Nucleus, Coma, and the tail. The Nucleus is the head of the comet, the Coma is the middle & the tail is the end of the comet.

The tail of a comet is luminous because it scatters and reflects the light from the sun.

Away from the Sun. It is pushed away from the Sun by the solar wind. The direction of movement of the comet has nothing to do with the direction of its tail - the tail may well be "in front of" the comet, if the comet goes away from the Sun.

The tail of a comet isn't a "tail" that drags along behind. The "tail" of a comet is a stream of vaporized ices from the head of the comet, which carry away a faint trail of dust. The "tail" of the comet is more like the smoke that blows away from a fire. The light of the Sun is the "solar wind", which carries away the dust and gas of the tail. Far enough away…

The comet's tail is in front of the comet, not after

... nearest the sun.

A comet is a space thing that has a heavenly body and a tail. The most famous comet known is Hailey's comet.

a comet gets a tail as it gets closer to the sun, due to solar winds.

Behind the comet because when the gasses behind the comet are burned the tail is formed

The Comet's Tail forms when sunlight causes the Comet's ice to change to a gas. The gas or ion , tail of a comet streams from the comet's head, carrying with it dust particles. The solar wind electrically charged particles, expand away from the sun pushes the gas away from the comet's head. Regardless of where its going the tail points away from the sun.

No. The tail of a comet is just dust and vapor blown away from the comet by the solar wind. It is visible only because it reflects the Sun's light. The closer the comet is to the Sun, the more vapor and dust will be released, and the longer the comet's tail will be. It also depends on our viewing angle to the comet is. If the comet's tail is perpendicular to our line of…

The tail of a comet is formed by ice and dust that is blown off by solar winds from the nearest star. That is why the tail will always point away from the star no matter what direction the comet is traveling.

As a comet approaches the sun a coma or tail forms from gases and dust released from the comet as it thaws in the warming sunlight. The solar wind pushes the tail away from the sun, the tail therefore is always being blown away from the sun no matter what position the comet is in with respect to the sun.

The sun creates a tail on a comet because of solar radiation and solar wind on the nucleus of the comet. A comet is an icy body that is seen when it passes close to the sun.

A comet generally has two tails, not one. One tail is due to the comet's dust particles, the other is due to ionized gas from the comet coma. Dust particles form the first tail. This comet tail generally points back along the comet path (so if the comet is traveling right, the dust tail extends to the left). Ions (electrically charged particles), which first come from the nucleus as (neutral) gaseous particles, are swept into…

The tail of a comet is generally directed toward the sun. It is an easy way to tell if a comet is heading toward or away from the sun.

As the comet approaches the sun, it gets heated up, and its surface begins to turn into a gas (sublimates). The gas then escapes from the comet, and with enough force to blow away some dust and small rocks from the comet. This dust and gas is what makes the tail and also why the tail always points away from the sun (even when the comet is running from the sun, so the tail is…

A comet tail forms by the sun heating up the interior of it and the solar air pushing it out.

What produces a comet tail is when the coment is startin to go down and it becames a ball of fire.

A comet has a gravitational pull that attracts dust and ice from space which crates a tail behind it

The coma and tail of a comet.

Sure. As a comet approaches the sun, the comet sheds some of its material, which trails behind it for millions of kilometers. It is this tail that is the most visible part of a comet. In fact, the word comet means "hairy star," referring to the long, streaming tail. In 1910, the earth actually passed through the tail of Halley's Comet.

The Comet trail.

The comet's "tail" is a stream of dust and vapors that melt and get pushed out of the comet by radiation pressure from the sun. The tail appears only when the comet is relatively near the sun, it's longest when the comet is nearest the sun, and it always points away from the sun, no matter which way the comet is moving.

More material is boiled off the comet as it gets nearer to the hot sun and so the comet tail grows.

No. The tail of the comet points away from the sun.

tail of comet is away from sun because whenever a comet is approaching sun, the solar winds from sun that is the high spped moving ions fron sun force the tail of comet to be oppositely oriented from the sun. Further comet is is travelling than either ice is melting or dust or any material that comet consist of experience force due to solar wind which keeps its tail way from the sun.

Comets have two tails. One is a dust tail that follows behind the comet, where the comet has physically been. The other tail is an ion tail that is blown away by the solar wind, so is always pointing directly away from the sun.

The "Comet" is a variety of Goldfish that has a long, single tail.