Halley's Comet
As a comet approaches the inner Solar System, solar radiation causes the volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus. The streams of dust and gas thus released form an atmosphere around the comet (called the coma), and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation pressure and solar wind cause the formation of an enormous tail that points away from the Sun.
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