a straight one called the ion tail. Often, star-grazing comets such as C/2024 G3 do not survive the encounter with the Sun, though astronomers believe that this one did so in the past. This comet ...

a bright dust tail, which is created by the reflection of sunlight on the dust streaming from the comet, and a fainter ion tail, which is composed of electrically charged atoms swept from the ...

I asked Scherb about Hale-Bopp's transparent blue tail, which gave the comet the appearance of a celestial bird-of-paradise flower. "That's the ion tail," he explained. "As water sublimates off ...

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...

The boiling is so intense, that the world has developed a comet-like tail stretching 350,000 miles behind it, scientists announced on Tuesday. Don't retire on this planet The planet, called WASP ...