explain why the tail of a comet always points away from the Sun
Answers
Answered by
7
Answer:
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.
✔✔✔
hope it helps you
Answered by
138
Radiation from the sun pushes dust particles away from the coma, forming a dust tail, while charged particles from the sun convert some of the comet's gases into ions, forming an ion tail.
Since comet tails are shaped by sunlight and the solar wind, they always point away from the sun.
Similar questions