SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Intense heat vaporizes the frozen gases and releases the dust within, which streams behind the comet, forming two distinct tails: an ion tail carried by the solar wind-the constant flow of charged particles from the Sun-and a dust tail.

Detailed explanation-2: -Comets have a sort of atmosphere, called a coma. It’s created as the comet’s frozen ices turn to gas by the Sun’s heat. Some of those gas particles become charged in the intense sunlight. Once that happens, they move in concert with the magnetized solar wind, forming what we see as the comet’s trailing ion tail.

Detailed explanation-3: -Comet tails come in two flavors: the ion tail and the dust tail. The ion tail is thin, blue and linear-points directly away from the Sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gases escaping from the comet are ionized by the ultraviolet photons from the Sun. Once they are ionized, the solar wind carries them straight outward away from the Sun. These gases form the plasma tail.

Detailed explanation-5: -The stream of energetic particles thrown off by the Sun is known as the solar wind, and is responsible for comets’ tails.

Detailed explanation-6: -The dust tail is formed when solar wind pushes small particles in the coma into an elongated curved path. Whereas the ion tail is formed from electrically charged molecules of gas.