... When a comet s icy and dusty nucleus nears the Sun, our star s heat turns the ice to gas, creating a fuzzy coma around the nucleus; a dust tail and an ion one also form from the material. ...
... As the comet continues to move closer to the Sun, the warming continues and activity rises, and pressure from the solar wind will eventually cause some of the material to stream out into a long tail. ...
... if you live far enough south, to find Comet PANSTARRS in the morning sky February 1 ... ll see what looks like a cotton ball with a short tail pointing to the southwest ...
... The optical image of Comet ISON follows Subaru s successful mid-infrared imaging of ... coma the atmosphere around the nucleus as well as a tail extending from the nucleus ...
... Will Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) shine brightly enough to see with naked eyes when it ... a gleaming head and a long flowing tail during November s latter half and December s ... that it will deliver on its promise of becoming a Great Comet later this year ...
... For thousands of years, scientists thought comets lived within Earth's atmosphere, and nearly everyone believed these celestial visitors delivered death and destruction with their tails. by Sarah Scoles . ...
... Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) remained a great target for astroimagers nearly three months after its perihelion date of March 10 ... This image shows both that both the wide dust tail and the straighter, much longer, ion tail are both active. ...
... When a planet behaves like a comet . ... Venus Express has discovered that our sister planetтАЩs ionosphere balloons out like a cometтАЩs tail on its nightside. ...