Why does a comet’s tail point away from the sun?

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Why does a comet’s tail point away from the sun?
Jul 3, 2019

The streams of dust and gas thus released form a huge, extremely tenuous atmosphere around the comet called the coma, and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun’s radiation pressure and solar wind cause an enormous tail to form, which points away from the Sun.


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