Comets

 An icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the sun, warms
and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
 This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also tail.
 These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind
acting upon the nucleus of the comet.

 Have two tails:

 White one
∞ Made of comet dust particles
 Blue one
∞ Made of electrically charged gas.
 Coma
 the cloud of comet dust particles surrounding the nucleus
 Nucleus
 solid, icy heart of comet, inside the cloud of the coma

 Comet Parts
 Tail:
∞ Ions, gas, dust blown away by sun
 Two tails:
∞ Gas tail
o Ions and gas, blown straight back from sun (white)
∞ Dust tail
o Lags behind so looks curve (blue)

 A comet is commonly described as having 3 parts:

1. Nucleus
∞ The dark dirty snowball composed of ice, dirt, rock and gas
2. Coma
∞ The halo of gas, ice and rock bursting forth from the nucleus
3. Tail
∞ May include both the dust and ion tail