... The tail on the viewgraphs is to scale: Comet tails really do stretch tens or even ... a comet head-on (its tail will look short) or on its side (the tail will look long ... Explain that the tail changes size and that Earth can go through the tail. ...
... The gas tail is the dark spike at the back of the head of the comet; vaguely flowing from that spike is the straight, narrow continuation of the gas tail. ...
... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail ...
... streams away from the nucleus, forming long, diaphanous tails millions of miles long ... Ancient skywatchers thought the wispy tails looked like hair; hence the Greek word ... Does the comet have a tail? ...
... U.S. Spacecraft ICE flew through the tail of Comet Giacobini-Zinner, becoming the ... by the Sun's radiation), and the tail (the long streamers of comet material pushed ...
... particles in the coma and sweeps them into a long "tail'' pointing away from the Sun ... outer coma are pushed into a gently curving dust tail by the pressure of the Sun's ... Comet tails can stretch out for more than 10 million kilometers. ...
... The solar wind, a stream of charged subatomic particles from the Sun's surface, blows gas from the coma into a separate tail, known as either the ion, gas, or plasma tail. ...
... of the comet was reported as "most unusual": the object appeared as a "dense linear bar'' with a "fainter, wispy tail ... and the gas, in turn, blows away bits of the solid material and forms the extended gas and dust tails we associate with comets ...
... ice and the large atmosphere (coma) and tail that develop as a comet approaches the ... 80,000 km across in early April, with a tail estimated at ten times that length ...