When a newly discovered comet named Hyakutake passed near Earth about 4 years ago, it made a major spectacle of itself. As well as flaunting two dust tails, it sported a ghostly bluish-white ...

"The length of the comet's tail was therefore twice that of the previous ... when the find was announced. It will be a long, long time before Hyakutake makes the journey near Earth again; one ...

Ikeya-Zhang has broken the record for the longest tail, beating out the previous record holder by nearly double the length!

214 kilometers and its tail an impressive 28,968,120 kilometers long. This extensive tail has kept the comet visible in SOHO's instruments for several days. As Tsuchinshan-ATLAS traversed the ...

This is not a “showy” comet in terms of throwing off spectacular tails of dusts and gases. It has been churning its way from fire to ice in its short periodical orbit for too long to have much ...

The closer a comet gets to the Sun, the longer and brighter its tail will grow. The tail can grow significantly longer than the nucleus and clock in around half a million miles long. All comets ...

Comet tails get longer as a comet approaches the sun and can end up millions of miles long. The dust tail is formed when solar wind pushes small particles in the coma into an elongated curved path.

The closer a comet gets to the Sun, the longer and brighter its tail will grow. The tail can grow significantly longer than the nucleus and clock in around half a million miles long. All comets ...

"And what a creature this comet has been." Comet experts say while the sharp kink in Olbers' tail may look strange to the average eye, the cause of its jagged appearance is a well-understood ...

The tail as seen in the morning sky, previous to the transit of the comet across the sun's disc, appeared like a long and straight beam of light stretching from the horizon to Aquila. It was ...

THE theory of comet's tails has not yet arrived at its ultimate destiny, which we suppose is that of becoming an orthodox branch of applied mathematics; ana consequently it still possesses a ...