SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -One is a plasma trail, which draws a straight line like a broomstick. The other is a dust tail, which opens like the bristles on a broom. The plasma tail comprises electrons and ions that are ionized by the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. The dust tail consists of micrometer-scale particles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most asteroids revolve around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in a region called the asteroid belt. Kind of like comets, asteroids are also small Solar System bodies that orbit the Sun. However they are made of rock and metal and do not have a visible tail like comets do.

Detailed explanation-3: -This causes another notable difference between asteroids and comets: comets have “tails” while asteroids generally don’t. When the ices in comets begin to melt and other materials vaporize from the heat from the Sun, this forms a glowing halo that extends outward from the comet as it sails through space.

Detailed explanation-4: -Comet tails point away from the Sun, regardless of the direction in which the comet is traveling. Comets have two tails because escaping gas and dust are influenced by the Sun in slightly different ways, and the tails point in slightly different directions.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tail of comets appears as a Tyndall cone because of the scattering of light by the tiny solid particles that are left behind by the comet in its route. We can define the Tyndall effect as the phenomenon of scattering of particles of light in its path.