Comet Tail
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The 'devil comet' had its tail ripped off by a solar storm
A sudden coronal mass ejection recently hit Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, causing
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Comet's tail is longer than a billion km long
The ion tail of comet 153P / Ikeya-Zhang is at least 7.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, nearly double the previous record of the comet Hyakutake.
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Why does a comet have many tails?
In 1986 when the famous Halley comet came back, its tail was especially noticeable.
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Admire the culmination of Catalina Comet in the new year
What's more interesting than welcoming 2016 with a unique astronomical phenomenon?
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Watch meteor shower in the sky of Europe
The part of Swift-Tuttle's comet tail as it passes through the Earth collides with the atmosphere, forming bright meteor streaks in the meteor shower called Perseids.