what is comet? How is its tail formed?
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comets are basically Dusty snowballs which Orbit the sun .they are made up of Ices such as water ,carbon dioxide,Ammonia and methane mixed with dust
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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.
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