2007-01-18 13:04:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Away from the sun. Even when it's moving away from the sun, the tail appears to be in front of it.
2007-01-18 13:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda Greene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comets sometimes have two tails...a dust and gas tail, and an ion tail. Althought both streams generally point away from the sun one of the tails sometimes is slightly offset from the other. Hence, comets with that feature have two separate tails.
When the position of a comet, the sun, and the Earth are just right, the tail of a comet (which can fan out, instead of being a discrete stream) can appear behind the coma of a comet on the sun-facing side (the tail appearing as such is many millions of miles behind the coma) and looks like a spike emanating from the coma.
2007-01-18 13:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
directly opposite of the sun, because of the solar winds
2007-01-18 13:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by LV NASCAR FAN 6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Away from the sun's cosmic wind.
2007-01-18 13:08:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Away from the sun (this is a guess, but is seems logical to me.)
2007-01-18 14:13:35 · answer #5 · answered by Pip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
opposite to any bright star (may be ur solar system sun)
2007-01-18 13:08:15 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew goel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋