File:Anatomy of a comet.jpg

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English: A comet is commonly described as having 3 parts:
  1. Nucleus - the dark dirty snowball composed of ice, dirt, rock and gas
  2. Coma - the halo of gas, ice and rock bursting forth from the nucleus
  3. Tail - in this case, both the dust and ion tail
Source http://deepimpact.umd.edu/gallery/Anatomy2.html
http://deepimpact.umd.edu/gallery/jpg/Anatomy2.jpg
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

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