comet tail
Glowing ice trail
A comet tail is the luminous stream of gas and dust that extends from a comet's nucleus when heated by the sun, always pointing away from the sun regardless of the comet's direction of travel.
Figuratively, anything that trails behind in a similar elongated fashion: a comet tail of sparks from the firework, Her scarf flew behind her like a comet tail.
astrofeature
Central controlling part
- streamersDecorative hanging ribbons
- solar windContinuous stellar particle emission
- outgassingReleasing trapped gas
- sublimationSolid to gas directly
ionized gases · meteoroids · debris trail · perihelion · orbital path · Halley · Hale-Bopp · meteor shower
nucleus
Central controlling part
- streamersDecorative hanging ribbons
- solar windContinuous stellar particle emission
- outgassingReleasing trapped gas
sublimation · ionized gases · meteoroids · debris trail · perihelion · orbital path · Halley · Hale-Bopp · meteor shower
- astronomy termseclipse, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, star, meteor shower
- spacespace, sun, moon, stars, star
- Fleeting Thingsbreath, blink, wink, glance, glimpses
- cometsHale-Bopp, dirty snowball, West, tails, Bennett
- imaging findingsanechoic, hyperdense, hypodense, radiolucent, radiopaque
- astrophysicsblack hole, neutron star, supernova, black holes, neutron stars
tail, coma, comet, comet tails