A comet is like a big, dirty snowball flying in space! 🌠 It's made of ice, dust, and rocks. When it gets close to the Sun, it starts to melt a little and grows a shiny tail that looks like a long, sparkly scarf. 🧣✨
Comets come from far away, beyond the planets, and sometimes we can see them from Earth with our eyes! They visit us, then go back into space.
A comet is a small, icy object that orbits the Sun, kind of like a planet but much smaller and made mostly of frozen gases, dust, and rock. 🪐 When a comet gets close to the Sun, the heat makes its ice turn into gas, creating a glowing cloud around it (called a coma) and a long, bright tail that always points away from the Sun. 🌞➡️✨
Comets come from two places: the Kuiper Belt (near Neptune) and the Oort Cloud (way farther out). Some, like Halley’s Comet, visit us every few decades!
A comet is a celestial body composed of ice, dust, and rocky material, often called a 'dirty snowball.' ☄️ It originates from the outer solar system—either the Kuiper Belt (a region beyond Neptune) or the distant Oort Cloud. As a comet approaches the Sun, solar radiation vaporizes its ices, releasing gas and dust to form:
Famous comets, like Halley’s Comet (visible every ~76 years) or Comet NEOWISE (2020), remind us that these objects are time capsules from the early solar system!