... This is basically what we mean by the comet's tail. But in this comet things are a bit different. ... Finally, the tail is streaming off the comet head, but appears to be off to one side since the comet's motion around the Sun ...
... the vapor associated with these comettails are extremely dangerous and flammable ... We can see comettails because they're really big, so even the thinly dispersed ... But poassing through a comettail is no big deal. ...
... Comettails cause drag, slowing a comet down and circularizing their orbits. ... because as I already showed, the tail of a comet is from stuff coming off the ... his tail drag idea can work, because his other ideas about comettails are so wrong ...
... Two: the tail of the comet did not point away from the Sun. ... There are two tails in a comet. ... change is small compared to the comet's velocity, so the tail curves away gently ...
... You can clearly see one of the comets below and to the right of the Sun, and the other is to the right of the Sun, with its tail sticking out from under a bright part of the Sun's corona. ...