... Comet LINEAR's tail also grew and in this mosaic of images from May 18, astronomer Gordon Garradd has carefully followed the fluorescing filaments of LINEAR's gas tail stretching 1.5 degrees (the width of three full moons) along the anti-sunward direction ...
... February 12, 1997 . Comet Hale-Bopp Develops a Tail . Credit and Copyright: P. H. Mikuz and B. Dintinjana ( Crni Vrh Obs ., ... U. Ljubljana ) . Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp has quite a tail to tell already. ...
... Comet Hyakutake is shown above already showing a tail of dust . ... as black spots and the bright comet coma and tail as dark clouds against the white ... Comet Hyakutake will be best seen in dark skies far from city lights, where its tail ...
... Comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) , visible on the upper left of the above image, is sporting ... Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) , visible near the horizon on the lower right, is ... The tails of both comets point approximately toward the recently set Sun. ...
... Explanation: Meteors, also called shooting stars, normally begin as bits of dust from the tails of comets or even small pieces chipped off asteroids. ...