why does the tail of a comet always point away from sun
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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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Comet tails will always point away from the sun because of the radiation pressure of sunlight. ... As a result, during its inbound passage a comet's tail streams behind the nucleus, but on its outbound passage back to the outer solar system the tail is in front of the nucleus.
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