as well as a cool 'anti-tail.' In this photo, it also seems that the comet's ion tail is also visible alongside its prominent dust tail. In addition to trailing long tails of dust and gases behind ...

a second tail can form from the gases that are released by the comet. This is often called the gas tail or ion tail, which glows not due to solar illumination but ionization. Material from the ...

I asked Scherb about Hale-Bopp's transparent blue tail, which gave the comet the appearance of a celestial bird-of-paradise flower. "That's the ion tail," he explained. "As water sublimates off ...

a bright dust tail, which is created by the reflection of sunlight on the dust streaming from the comet, and a fainter ion tail, which is composed of electrically charged atoms swept from the ...

A comet is set to pass by Earth this spring, and it may be missing its tail. The comet poses no danger to Earth—it is about the same distance from our planet as we are from the sun—but ...

Astrophoto of periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky. Green nucleus and tail of ion, dust ... [+] and vapor illuminated by the sun in front of star field in space. Have you seen comet 12P ...

The boiling is so intense, that the world has developed a comet-like tail stretching 350,000 miles behind it, scientists announced on Tuesday. Don't retire on this planet The planet, called WASP ...